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*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.
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