Dear Malcolm,
thank you so much for this one!
It is interesting to see that "WLADYSLAWOWO" had an orange stripe over wheelhouse added already in 1988.
Among other vessels of the class, only "JURATA" received it too, but not before late 1995.
The Stulcken seems to be temporairly removed, for some kind of repair, I guess.
All kinds of dents in portside shell are consequences of accident, described here:
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/1625177

Dear WUKA54,
Thank you very much for sharing the memories, it's hard not be a bit jelous ;-)
Do you have perhaps some photos, for "Ships' deck" category maybe?
Please be sure to check the arkiv.dk website, with pictures showing building, launching and trial period of "WLADYSLAWOWO" at Nakskov:
https://arkiv.dk/soeg?searchstring=wladyslawowo%2C+m%2Fs&page=0

Kind regards,
Marcin

A general cargo ship built for Polish Ocean Lines (PLO) by the Danish NASSKOV SKIBSVAERFT shipyard. The ceremonial launching and naming took place on August 19, 1971, and commissioning took place in December 1971. The ship - the fourth (last) in the express line entered the Far East line. The maiden voyage of m/s WLADYSLAWOWO set off from Gdynia on January 2, 1982. In 1977, she was the first Polish freighter in the Japanese port of Toyama. In June 1978, he rescued survivors from the Panamanian-flagged ship GOLDEN VICTORY, which sank in the Indian Ocean near Socotra. In November 1980, in Gdynia, customs officers found smuggling over 50 kg of heroin. During the voyage from Hamburg to Limassol, on the Mediterranean Sea (between Crete and Cyprus), m/s Wladyslawowo once again took part in saving lives at sea. It was May 12, 1981, when the entire 26-person crew of the burning Bulgarian ship was rescued
BRACIGOVO . The Polish ship was escorted almost around the clock. In January 1991, the ship was chartered to the US Military and Sealift Command, serving as an equipment and supply carrier for US Army units operating in the Persian Gulf area. On June 18, 1983, it was handed over to a daughter company - POL-America, for the purpose of servicing the East Coast Line of North America. In the winter of 1996, the ship carried the Polish polar expedition to Antarctica. In August 1997, after almost 26 years of service under the Polish flag, she was sold for scrap. Later that month, she arrived at Alang Beach, India, where scrapping began.

Technical data :

Tonnage :(1971) 7658 / 10930BRT ; 4208 / 6368NRT ; 9745/14150 t DW
(1984) payload changes 10930 / 14137 tDW
(1994) After the changes to the Convention on Load Lines i
unification of regulations:
12,167 GT, 6,776 NT, 14,137 tDW
Ship dimensions: 166.27 X 23.35 X 8.28 / 10.00 [m]
Number of holds: 6
Passengers: 12, in six double cabins
Main drive : 1 x B&W 8K84EF
Main engine power: 20,000 horsepower (14,720 kW)
Speed assumed by designers: 22.5 knots
Due to the powerful vibrations, it was reduced to a maximum of 20.75 knots
Classification Society: PRS

M/S Wladyslawowo was one of many PLO ships with which I had and (despite the passage of many years) memories connect me. Express ships built in Denmark, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, were our pride, one of the most modern and beautiful general cargo ships that sailed the seas and oceans at that time ... I had the pleasure of visiting a ship calling at the port
on a journey from the shipyard in Nakskov to Gdynia. Despite the bad winter weather , quite a few members of the seafarers ' families gathered on the wharf to greet them . My father was a member of the first crew. For several months, on behalf of PLO, he supervised the construction of the ship (earlier also m/s HEL). Later he worked on it, making two round trips Gdynia - Far East -