Name: | HINDUSTAN |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 12/05/1976 |
Completed: | 09/1976 |
Builder: | Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 91 |
Dimensions: | 19867grt, 11396nrt, 31700dwt, 190.9 x 26.9 x 10.3(draft) metres |
Engines: | Oil engine, 2SA, Sulzer type, 7cyl (760 x 1550mm), 14000bhp |
Engines by: | Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Whiteinch, Glasgow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 15.0knots |
Reg Number: | 363067; (IMO: 7343346) |
History: | |
09/1976 | Hindustan Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Common Bros (Management) Ltd), Newcastle |
1978 | Marsden Point Tankers Ltd (Union Steamship Co of New Zealand), Wellington |
1978 | Renamed AMOKURA |
1989 | Ship Finance Ltd, Wellington |
1993 | Fogarty Maritime Co Ltd (Blue Flag Navigation Ltd), Limassol |
1993 | Renamed TRANSPORTER LT |
1998 | Green Masters Shipping, Limassol; renamed EASTMAN SPIRIT |
2001 | Vertig Shipping SA, Limassol; renamed GLOBAL SPIRIT |
2003 | Registered at Panama; renamed GLOBAL SPIRIT III |
2005 | Renamed NORTHSEA |
2007 | Registered at Phnom Penh |
29/05/2007 | Sank |
Comments: | 29/05/2007: Hit by lightning, burnt and sank, 135 miles SxW of Lagos |
Above photo as HINDUSTAN is courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as AMOKURA is copyright of Chris Howell
Above photo as AMOKURA is copyright of Chris Howell
Above photo as AMOKURA is copyright of Stuart Scott