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Photographer:
Rick Vince [ View profile ]
Title:
Arkansas
Photo Category:
Ship's Deck
Added:
Apr 15, 2024
Views:
35
Image Resolution:
3,999 x 2,580

Description:

*Admins, I can't erase the light flare on the scan, perhaps Pieter Melissen will help with this - he usually does! Thanks in advance.

Circa 1963, entrance to the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

A View over the foredeck from the starboard bridge wing.

The ship is about to make a starboard turn into the harbour.

The shipwreck on the starboard bow is the TRANSCARIBBEAN.
See here: https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3697207

A Danish general cargo ship of DFDS (Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab = The United Steamship Company).

Keel laid on 19/12/1945, launched on 21/08/1946, and completed on 30/09/1947, by Helsingør Værft, Elsinore, Denmark (265)
3,591 g.t. and 4,785 dwt., as:
'Arkansas' to 1966,
'Argy' to 1969, and
'Fraternity' until 05/01/1976, when she was wrecked off Gaza during a laden voyage with cement from Apapa to Gaza.

Scanned from a slide in the collection of the late Niels Anker Larsen, former Danish Merchant Navy Radio Officer.

Vessel
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Current name:
FRATERNITY

Former name(s):

 -  Argy (Until 1969)

 -  Arkansas (Until 1966)

Vessel Type:
General Cargo
Gross tonnage:
2,475 tons
Summer DWT:
4,035 tons

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Ship's Deck - 2 photos

General cargo ships built 1940-1949 (Over 3000gt) - 4 photos

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Rick Vince

3 photos

pea

1 photos

CuxHans

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