LAKE PLACID, a T2 tanker which had been converted to dry cargo in 1962, had in October 1969 suffered an engine room explosion at Antwerp and in July 1970 was towed to Rotterdam for repairs. She is here photographed passing Hoek van Holland on 8th July.

At Rotterdam she was purchased by Wall Street Marine Inc., a company created in 1966 following the collapse of E.C.Stamatiou’s Marine Managers Inc. Following repairs she traded as GARANDA until arriving at Amsterdam from Albany (NY) at the end of 1971. She then remained idle at Amsterdam until purchased by the New York based Greek owner Antonis D. Manthos and sent in tow to Santander, where she arrived in 8th June 1973, for her forepart to be joined to the after part of the 1959 built tanker FATUM.

FATUM, immediately on being purchased by Manthos, was renamed AKRON and sent to Santander, arriving on 23rd May 1973. Following surgery she sailed by the end of 1973 as a dry cargo ship, serving Manthos until sold to Pakistan breakers in 1982. It is understood that her new cargo handling gear, i.e. steam winches and derricks, was obtained from yet another ship. Her bridge and deck officers’ accommodation was positioned in the centre of the ship.

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