10,710 grt; 13,072 dwt; heavy-lift derrick SWL: 120 tonnes; Liquids (veg oils/chemicals) in deep tanks: 843 tonnes.
Operator: VNSM - Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij NV (United Netherlands Shipping Co Ltd), Rotterdam, Netherlands. Port of registry: ’sGravenhage (The Hague)
Built: 1967 by Van der Giessen-de Noord BV, Krimpen a/d Ijssel, Netherlands. Yard no 852.
Main engine: six-cylinder, two-stroke Stork 6SW90/170 of 17,000 bhp at 115 rpm. Speed: 20.5 knots.
1970-absorbed in to Koninklijke Nedlloyd by amalgamation of several Dutch shipping companies; 1977-renamed NEDLLOYD WILLEMSKERK by Nedlloyd Lijnen BV; 1984-WILLEMSKERK (charter to Mammoet Shipping); 1986-NEDLLOYD WILLEMSKERK; 1987-sold/renamed ARROW QUEEN.
1990-to breakers at Chittagong, Bangladesh, 25/12.
Photo: 27/4/1969, departing Rotterdam