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FALAISE - IMO 5111969
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Photographer:Bob Scott [ View profile ]
Title:Falaise
Location:Newhaven, United Kingdom
Photo Category:Ferries
Added:Oct 10, 2018
Views:678
Image Resolution:1,068 x 768
Description:
2,416 grt; 620 dwt; 700 passengers.
Operator: British Railways Board. Port of Registry: Southampton.
Built: 1947 by William Denny & Bros Ltd , Dumbarton, Scotland. Yard no. 1400.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 4 x Denny steam turbines of 8,500 shp (total). Speed: 20 knots.
Built for Southern Railway, Southampton
1948-registered to British Transport Commission, Southern Region
1964-converted to passenger/car ferry by Vickers Armstrong (Shipbuilders) Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne
1974-to breakers at Bilbao, Spain, arrived 31/12.
Photo: Newhaven 1969, sailing for Dieppe.
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IMO:5111969
Photos:10 photos by 6 photographers
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"MARLINDA" details as follows:
5,081 grt; 4,144 dwt
Operator: Marviglia Cia Nav SA, Panama, Panama (on charter to CIAMAR, Argentina).
Built: 1952 by Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, Port de Bouc, France. Yard no 265.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 2 x eight-cylinder, two-stroke Sulzer diesels (600 x 1040 mm) of 8,000 bhp (total) for a speed of 16.5 knots.
Built for CGT - Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (The French Line) as FORT RICHELIEU.
1968-sold/renamed MARLINDA.
1969-to breakers at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Photo: Newhaven 6/1969
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