4,635 grt; 6,580 dwt.
Operator: Bock, Goddefroy & Co (Deutsch Levante Linie), Hamburg; Flag: Germany.
Built: 1953 by Lübecker Flender Werke AG, Lübeck-Siems, Germany. Yard no 449.
Main engine: five-cylinder, two-stroke Krupp Dieselmotor 5Z125 of 2,750 bhp at 115 rpm, built by Waggon & Maschinenebau AG, Hamburg-Steinwerder. Speed: 13 knots.
Built as BABITONGA for Reederei Rudolf A. Oetker
1950-sold/renamed ANKARA (as photo)
1971-sold to Panmares Neptunea SA, Piraeus, Greece (name unchanged), Greek flag.
1974-renamed CAIRO (same owner).
1979-to breakers at Gadani Beach, Pakistan 6/6
Photo: 30/4/1969, departing Rotterdam for the Middle East with a deck cargo of East-German-built IFA trucks.