M.MELODY is seen docking stern first into Langton Lock, Liverpool, on the afternoon ebb tide of 11th July 1997, to load general cargo for Apapa/Lagos, Nigeria.

Built at Bremen in 1978 as INGELHEIM for the local firm of Unterweser Frachtschiffahrts (later Kosmos Bulkschiffahrt), she subsequently took the following names:

1983: CORONET
1988: NATASHA II
1990: GUR MARINER
1990: SAT MAR
1992: M.MELODY (owner: Jayship Limited, London)

Following engine failure 24.2.02, abandonment at Luanda and arrest at Cape Town, she arrived off Alang on 5.12.02 to be broken up