VEB Deutsche Seereederei of Rostock's 1964 Warnemünde built WILHELM FLORIN, one of the first of the X type, an XA type built for DSR delivered with deck cranes, was here photographed arriving at Avonmouth from Port Sudan exactly fifty years ago today, on Saturday 8th April 1972. The deck cranes were later replaced with derricks.

The vessel's name was shortened to FLORIN for the voyage to Kaohsiung for breaking, arriving there on 5th December 1987.

Scanned from a slide in my collection by the late John Wiltshire