5,341 grt; 5,326 dwt
Operator: Nigerian National Shipping Line Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria.
Built: 1964 by Schiffswerft A Pahl, Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Germany. Yard no 321.
Main engine: six-cylinder, two-stroke Krupp-B&W 6-62VT2BF-140 developing 6,500 bhp at 139 rpm for a speed of 16.knots.
Built for Holland-Amerika Lijn, Rotterdam as POELDYK (Netherlands flag).
1974-sold /renamed RIVER GONGOLA (as photo).
1979-sold to Candleford Shipping Co. Ltd Limassol, Cyprus (Denval Marine Consultants Ltd., London), renamed MIKELDEN (Cyprus flag);
1983-sold to China Ocean Shipping Co, renamed SU LONG (Chinese flag);
1991-to Dalian Haida Shipping Co, Dalian, China, renamed HUA GUI;
1997-sold/renamed HUA JIE (Belize flag).
Deleted from registers 2005
Photo: 6/3/1979, arriving for West Africa Terminal, Tilbury Dock, London