18,736 grt; 27,160 dwt
Operator: A/S Uglands Rederi, Grimstad, Norway.
Built: 1962 by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough, UK. Yard no: 1267.
Main engine: four-cylinder, two-stroke, opposed-piston Hawthorn Leslie-Doxford 67PT4 of 6,640 bhp at 124 rpm. Speed: 13 knots
Seen here discharging iron ore at Glasgow’s General Terminus in August 1976, three years before that city-centre terminal was closed in favour of a much bigger one at Hunterston, in the Firth of Clyde.
LIVANITA was sold in 1978 to become VIDA under Liberian flag and again in 1984 to become HOPPET for her final trip to breakers at Ningbo, China