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Owned by R.J Reynolds (Sea-Land); 9014 grt; 8024 ton dwt; 396 TEU; loa.: 142,86 m; br. 22,00 m; dght.: 7,633 m.; Service speed: 16 knots; Built as general cargo in 1943 at Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. Chickasaw, U.S.A.; Converted to container carrier in 1957; Scrapped at Vigo, Spain. Work began at the 24th of April 1976.
I took this picture in autumn 1975.
Origianally she had a gantry crane before the bridge and another one after the bridge.
Note the rope from the main mast to the stern mast. That rope was untied at every terminal.
(There is a good stern shot of the ship in the Shipspotting database available)
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