General cargo ship “Silver Joy” at Nagoya, April 1978
Owner: Silver Joy Shipping Co. Inc., Panama
Flag: Philippines or Panama (?)
Builder: Hayashikane Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Nagasaki
Gross tons: 7,680
Deadweight: 11,153
Length overall: 142 m
Engine: 7-cylinder diesel, 6,400 b.h.p., by Mitsubishi H.I., Yokohama
Completed 1967 as “Don Jose Figueras” (for Philippine Government?)
Sold 1977 to Filriters Guaranty Assurance Corp. & Ricardo C. Silverio, Manila.
Sold (transferred?) 1978 to Silver Joy
1994: to Philippine President Lines (or United President Lines, whose ships were operated by PPL); initially renamed “President Laurel” and later “Lucky Sixteen”; delivered for scrapping at Kaohsiung in December that year