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Description:
Product tanker; 13,119 grt; 20,881 dwt.
Operator: BP Shipping Ltd, London.
Built: 1964 by Hawthorn Leslie (Shipbuilders) Ltd, Hebburn (Tyne). Yard no 749.
Main engine: six-cylinder, two-stroke Hawthorn Leslie-Sulzer 6RD76 of 7,500 bhp at 122 rpm. Speed: 14.5 knots.
1983-sold/renamed NEW FORTUNE; 1984-KYRA POPI; 1985-MARE EQUITORIALE; 1996-to breakers at Alang, India.
Photographed passing Tilbury inbound for Purfleet 21/4/1968. Sister vessel, BRITISH FERN, is behind, on the tank-cleaning jetty.
Former name(s):
- British Hawthorn (Until 1983)
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Tankers built before 1970 - 3 photos
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