| Name: | FRANK D MOORES |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 06/02/1973 |
| Completed: | 18/06/1973 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 47 |
| Dimensions: | 32531dwt, 19869grt, 11407nrt, 182.89 x 26.90 x 13.64metres |
| Engines: | Oil engine, Sulzer type, 2SA, 7cyl (760 x 1550mm), 14000bhp |
| Engines by: | Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Whiteinch, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 16.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 337391; (IMO: 7304869) |
| History: | |
| 18/06/1973 | Nile SS Co Ltd (Common Brothers, managers), Newcastle |
| 1976 | Renamed KURDISTAN |
| 1979 | Renamed SIMONBURN |
| 1980 | Transferred to Hindustan SS Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| 1980 | Transferred to Northumbrian Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| 1982 | Ching Tankers, Liberia; renamed AURA BRAVERY |
| 1986 | Seaveil Shipping, Cyprus; renamed SEABRAVERY |
| 1987 | Coronation Shipping Ltd, Valletta |
| 13/06/2000 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 15/03/1979: Broke in two when she overrode an ice floe at full speed |
| On a voyage from Port Hawksbury, NS to Pointe-Noire, QC | |
| 01/04/1979: Fore body sunk by naval gunfire as it was a shipping hazard | |
| 14/04/1979: Aft body towed to St John NB and then to Yimuiden in The Netherlands | |
| New forebody constructed by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maats | |
| 11/1979: Repairs completed at Amsterdam | |
| 13/06/2000: Arrived at Alang for breaking up | |
| 20/06/2000: Work commenced at Alang |
Above photo as FRANK D MOORES is copyright of Chris Howell
Above photo as FRANK D MOORES is courtesy of John Bage
Above photo of KURDISTAN stern is copyright of Mac Mackay
Above photo as AURA BRAVERY is copyright of Pieter Melissen
Above photo as SEABRAVERY is copyright of Yvon Perchoc
Above photo as SEABRAVERY is copyright of Tony Frost