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AIMEE LYKES - IMO 5006176
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Photographer:Chris Howell [ View profile ]
Title:Aimee Lykes
Location:Durban, South Africa
Photo Category:General Cargo Ships Built 1960-1969 (over 3000gt)
Added:Feb 17, 2013
Views:3,037
Image Resolution:2,065 x 1,400
Description:
Trevor Jones owned slide with copyright
Completed 1963
Subsequent History:
1985 to USN and renamed USNS CAPE CANSO
Disposal Data:
BU Brownsville 8.8.08 [Esco Marine]
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Current name:CAPE CANSO
Vessel Type:General Cargo
Gross tonnage:9,397 tons
Summer DWT:12,887 tons
Photos:3 photos by 2 photographers
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General cargo ships built 1960-1969 (Over 3000gt) - 3 photos
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The (in)famous AIMEE LYKES, which made a name for herself in SA casualty history by running aground on the needles of rock on the Aliwal Shoal off Scottburgh, south of Durban in late-November 1963, while racing on her maiden voyage to break the record for a New Orleans/Durban passage. She tried to pass between two RIL vessels, and ripped her bottom plating and then grounded on the Shoal. Durban harbour tugs pulled her off a few days later, and she had upwards of 300 tons of plating replaced in her hull - at the time the biggest peacetime repair job effected in Durban. For years, the vessel did not trade to SA, but eventually came back in the mid-1970s.
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