General cargo ship “Aliakmon Pilot” in the Shatt-al-Arab River, June 1972
Owner: Aliakmon Maritime Corp., Monrovia (Almar Shipping group)
Port of registry: Piraeus, Greece
Builder: William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool (Hull-1288)
Gross tons: 8,266
Deadweight: 10,600
Length overall: 145.1 m
Max. draft: 8.88 m
Engine: 5-cylinder Doxford diesel, 5,500 b.h.p., by Hawthorn, Leslie (Engineering) Ltd.
Service speed: 15.0 knots
Completed September 1957 as “Irish Alder” (reg. Cork) for Irish Shipping Ltd.
Bought 1971 by Aliakmon
Sold 1977 to Chelone Maritime Inc., Piraeus (manager Dissotis Shipping Corp.), remaned “Attikan Unity”
25th August 1977: gutted by fire & beached in Vlissingen (Flushing) Roads
1978: refloated & towed to Bremen for scrapping (arrived March)