Livestock carrier “Petrel” at Bandar Shahpur (now now Bandar Khomeini), Iran, January 1972 (if I remember correctly, bringing live sheep from Australia)
Owner: Transportes Oceánicos SACIFI, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Port of registry: Buenos Aires
Builder: C. van der Giessen, Krimpen, Netherlands (Hull-753)
Gross tons: 11,540
Deadweight: 7,810
Length overall: 159.4 m
Max. draft: 7.90 m
Engines: 2 x 10-cylinder diesels, total 10,000 b.h.p., by N.V. Werkspoor, Amsterdam
Service speed: 18 knots
Completed April 1951 as passenger ship “Yapeyu” for Flota Argentina de Navegación de Ultramar (FANU), Buenos Aires
September 1960: owner merged with Flota Mercante del Estado (FME) to form Empresa Líneas Marítimas Argentinas (ELMA)
Bought 1969 by Transportes Oceánicos, renamed & converted to livestock carrier
Sold 1972 to Transagro S.A. Naviera y Agropecuaria, Argentina, renamed “Cremona” (manager C. Claussen, Denmark)
Sold 1976 to Cormoran S.A., Singapore, renamed “Iran Cremona” (Singapore flag)
sold 1980 for scrapping at Kaohsiung, Taiwan