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Njassa - IMO 5606170
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Photographer:Phil English [ View profile ]
Title:Njassa
Location:Suez Canal, Egypt
Photo Category:General Cargo Ships Built Before 1940 (over 3000gt)
Added:Jun 8, 2005
Views:2,305
Image Resolution:931 x 618
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Taken by a family member, possibly in the 1930s, at Suez?
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IMO:5606170
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General cargo ships built before 1940 (Over 3000gt) - 3 photos
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this is the box of a so-called "Suez-Searchlight", to lighten the canal during night-passages. If the vessel don't have an own, it has to hire one including a service crew from the canal authority.
The rule is still existing ! See more :
http://www.lethsuez.com/rules_of_navigation/art28.htm
Nice regards from Austria
Werner
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presumably the contraption is some special piece of kit required for transiting the Suez. Maybe some special kind of lamp?
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She was chartered out to HAL - Hamburg America Line in 1934, but returned to DOAL-Services in 1936.
She stayed in Germany during WW II, but was bombed and sunk in Wilhelmshaven in early 1945. Later scrapped there.
The picture is for sure taken in the Suez-Canal about 1930...
Nice Regards
Werner
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Nice one. Tugs were a bit small though :-P
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