Bjorn,
Thanks for all the additional information!

Paul

ROTTERDAM - IMO 5016274
IDNo: 5016274 Name: COASTAL CAPTAIN
Type: Cargo ship (ref) - Flag: USA Date of completion: 10.45
Tons: 3805 - DWT: 5032 Length overall: 103.2 - LPP: 97.5 - Beam: 15.2 Country of build: USA
Builder: Jones Construction - Yard No: 202 - Link: 1782
Location of yard: Brunswick
Ship Design: C1-M-AV1
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 1D-11
Next 1948 ANDINO - 64 GERTRUD C.ERTEL - 66 I.C.ERTEL - 67 ROTTERDAM

Disposal Data:
BU Gadani Beach 16.4.81 [Unitra]

More than 200 C1-M-AV1 were built - by several shipyards - for cargo service in WW2.
I was on one of them in 1955 serving as 3rd mate. Engine was diesel. By then the ship belonged to C.A.V.N. - The venezuelan line serving venezuela and the us ports of the Gulf of Mexico.Name was "Republica de Venezuela" and had a sister "Rio Orinoco.

Indeed a C1MAV1 class vsl, Nordberg Milwaukee Diesel Main Eng.
which was quite a thing, normally all US merchantvsls were having steam engines. These C1MAV1 vessels were also called Victories or knot-vessels....

Rgds, Capt. Bill Waldmeier

This is Hellenic Line’s ROTTERDAM, a US WW2 standard Type C1-M-AV1 freighter built in 1945 by J A Jones Construction Co, Brunswick Georgia as COASTAL CAPTAIN. First sold for civilian use in 1948, she bore the names ANDINO, GERTRUD C ERTEL and I C ERTEL before joining the Hellenic Lines fleet in 1967.
IMO no 5016274.