General cargo ship “Sun Yu” at Kobe, Japan, September 1972
Owner: Sun Line Ltd.
Flag: Somalia
Port of registry: Mogadishu
Builder: Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen
Gross tons: 4,930
Deadweight: 9,200
Length overall: 134.1 m
Max. draft: 7.64 m
Engine: 7-cylinder B&W type 762-VTF-115 diesel, 2,500 or 3,850 b.h.p. (sources differ), by builders
Service speed: 14 knots
Ordered November 1943 & laid down the following year (during the German occupation of Denmark) as “Katharinenfleet” for Hamburg-Amerika Linie but not delivered before war's end
Completed March 1948 as “Venezuela” for Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S (DFDS), Copenhagen
Sold November 1965 to Astroprospero Cia. Nav. SA, Piraeus; renamed "Pantelis A. Lemos" (managers Lemos & Pateras Ltd.)
Bought 1970 by Sun Line
Sold 1976 to Azeem Shipping Corp. SA, Panama, renamed "Azeem"
Abandoned 1978 in Tema harbour, Ghana
Reportedly sold to Spanish shipbreakers 1980
Ran aground outside Tema in September 1981 (starting on delivery voyage?)
Towed off & scuttled by Ghanaian Navy April 1982