VLCC. 118,461 gt; 239,601 dwt.
Operator: Troodos Shipping & Trading Ltd, London (a London-Greek-Cypriot shipping company headed by Loucas Haji-Ioannou, father of Stelios, the founder of easyJet, the budget airline). Flag: Cyprus.
Built: 1973 by Chantiers Navals de La Ciotat, La Ciotat, France. Yard no 288.
Machinery: two Stal-Laval steam tubines of 32,400 shp (total) built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique. Speed: 15.5 knots.
Built for Soc Maritime des Petroles BP (BP France) as BEAUGENCY.
1982-sold to Troodos group, renamed POLYS.
1986-renamed POLIKON (as photo).
1987-declared CTL after aircraft missile attack 5/4 in Persian Gulf in Iran-Iraq war.
1991-renamed MICKY for tow to breakers and arrived Gadani Beach, 22/12.
This photo was taken at the ASRY-Arab Ship Repair Yard in Bahrain, where POLIKON was being patched-up after a hit by an Iraqi Exocet missile during the Iran-Iraq War. The missile passed right through the empty tanker without exploding. The hole is just visible to the right of the lower part of the nearest crane.
Apparently, this ship was hit three times in the 1980s ‘tanker war’ between Iraq and Iran. This was the second time. Five months later she was hit again and declared a total loss. She joined the many burned-out tanker hulks in the Gulf until 1991, when she was towed to Gadani Beach for demolition.