Neptun 371 type; 8,347 grt; 11,000 dwt
Operator: Booker Line Ltd, Liverpool
Built 1975 by VEB Schiffswerft ‘’Neptun’’, Rostock, East Germany. Yard no 375
Main engine: nine-cylinder, two-stroke Halberstadt-MAN K9Z 60/105E 9,124 bhp at 165 rpm. Speed: 17.5 knots.
Built as SOL NEPTUN for Solstad Rederi A/S (Johannes Solstad), Skudeneshavn, Norway.
1976-WOLFGANG RUSS (charter); 1977-SOL NEPTUN (end of charter); 1979-BOOKER CRUSADE (as photo); 1983-CIELO DI TRIESTE; 1993-JUTHA PHANSIR; 1998-MAJESTIC K; 1998- QUEEN HAJA; 2010-ACE 1; 2010-to breakers at Alang, India 15/12
Photo: anchored Sea Reach, River Thames, awaiting the berth at Tate & Lyle’s sugar refinery, Silvertown, London