16,462 gt; 21,180 dwt 795 TEU.
Owner: Ocean Transport & Trading Plc; Manager: Ocean Fleets Ltd, Liverpool.
Built: 1980 by Scott's Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Greenock, Scotland. Yard no 750.
Main engine: seven-cylinder Scott's-Sulzer 7RND76M of 16,800 bhp at 122 rpm. Speed: 18 knots.
Built as MENTOR and delivered to Elder Dempster Line.
1981-renamed CITY OF LONDON for charter to Ellerman.
1982-renamed MENTOR.
1985-sold to Hake Shipping Co, Cyprus (managers Ahrenkiel Shipping (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong, renamed NORMANNIA (Cyprus flag)
1986-ALS RELIANCE; 1988-HOEGH NORMANIA; 1989-RICKMERS HUANGZHOU; 1990-DSR SHANGHAI; 1994-PALMAS; 1994-DG ENDEAVOUR.
1995-sold to Tamahine Shipping Ltd, London (V-Ships UK Ltd) and renamed TAMATIKI (IoM/British flag).
2001-sold to breakers at Alang, India, arrived 7/5.
Photo: Passing Gravesend inward for Tilbury sometime in 1982.
The person on the end of the causeway is the late, Gravesend-based Alex Duncan, a very well-known ship photographer and photo dealer in bygone days