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Laid up in Drapetsona, Piraeus in July 2001. IMO 6703317. Ex-ULSTER QUEEN 1967, MED SEA 1982, AL KAHERA 1986, ALA-EDDIN 1987-1988.
Sold by Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Patras to Al-Kahfain Est, Saudi Arabia in May 2005 and renamed AL-KAHFAIN.
*On November 1, 2005 on a voyage from Suez to Jeddah a fire broke down, one crew member was lost. Later the same day when under tow she capsized some 4 nm off Safaga.
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Former name(s):
- Poseidonia (Until 2005 Apr)
- La Patria (Until 2002 Mar)
- Poseidonia (Until 2000 Apr)
- Ala Eddin (Until 1988)
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87, Med Sea -86, Ulster Queen -82), 4,26967 passenger/vehicle ferry, owned byAl Kahfain
Est Contracting & Trade, Panama, Fire broke out in the engine-room 1/11/2005 when off
Hurghada in the Red Sea and 58 crew members were evacuated. She was taken in tow for
Safaga but capsized and sank about four miles off the port. There were no passengers on
board and she was bound from Hurghada for Jeddah.
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