DEKABRIST - IMO 7532753

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Photographer:

Bob Scott [ View profile ]

Captured:

Apr 20, 1979

Title:

Dekabrist

Location:

Gravesend, London, United Kingdom

Photo Category:

General Cargo Ships Built 1970-1979 (over 3000gt)

Added:

Dec 8, 2019

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689

Image Resolution:

1,365 x 768

Description:

Warnowwerft “Mercator” type multipurpose cargo ship; 7,305 grt; 12,347 dwt; part-refrigerated; 368 TEU.
Operator: USSR-Baltic Shipping Co, Leningrad.
Built: 1976 by VEB Warnowwerft, Warnemünde, German Democratic Republic. Yard no 346.
Main engine: eight-cylinder, two-stroke Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock (DMR)-MAN K8Z70/120E of 11,200 bhp at 140 rpm. Speed: 19.5 knots.
1998-renamed PEKAS for voyage to breakers in Cambodia.
21 examples of the “Mercator” design were built: 17 for the Soviet Union and four for VEB Deutfracht Seerederei, the East German state shipping line.

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Builder:

Nordic Yards Warnemunde - Rostock, Germany

Vessel Type:

General Cargo