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Name: WINDSOR LION
Type: Tanker
Launched: 21/06/1974
Completed: 06/1975
Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 58
Dimensions: 256548dwt, 131542grt, 105570nrt, 330.72 x 51.82 x 25.61metres
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, DR Geared, 32000shp
Engines by: GEC Turbine Generators Ltd, Manchester
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 363647
History:
06/1975 Anglomar Supertankers Ltd, London
1981 Renamed MERIDIAN SKY
1986 TT State Corporation, Monrovia; renamed STATE
1988 National Iranian Tanker Co, Bandar Abbas; renamed AVAJ 2
06/06/1995 Broken up
Comments: 06/06/1995: Arrived at Gadani Beach for breaking up


Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of Falcon Hildred & courtesy of Reg Angel

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of Falcon Hildred & courtesy of Reg Angel

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is courtesy of Terry Summerson

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of Paul Strathdee

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of Graeme Turner

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of Louise Karmazyn

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of Auke Visser

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as WINDSOR LION is copyright of John D Hill

Above photo as MERIDIAN SKY is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as AVAJ 2 is copyright of Bernd Urbanik

Above photo as AVAJ 2 is copyright of Simon Smith