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Unknown date (circa 1965), at an unidentified Italian port.
(The ship flies the Italian tricolori courtesy flag, meaning it is a 'foreign' ship in Italy.)
The sacks in the foreground appear to contain 'asbestos'.
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 Shipyard, Helsingør, Denmark (265)
3,591 g.t. and 4,785 dwt., as:
'Arkansas' until 1966,
'Argy' to 1969, and
'Fraternity' until 05/01/1976 when she was wrecked off Gaza during a final voyage with cement from Apapa to Gaza.
Scanned from a slide.
From the collection of the late Niels Anker Larsen, former Radio Officer of the Merchant Navy.
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