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Name: KAKUM
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 22/03/1962
Completed: 07/1962
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd
Yard: Friar's Goose, Gateshead
Yard Number: 155
Dimensions: 335grt, 119nrt, 127.5 x 30.4ft
Engines: Oil engine, 4SA, 8cyl (229 x 305mm), 830bhp
Engines by: National Gas & Oil Engine Co Ltd, Ashton-under-Lyne
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 316514
History:
07/1962 Ghana Fishing Corporation, Takoradi
1965 United Fisheries Co WLL, Kuwait; renamed RASHED 20
No later history known
Comments: In service in 2005


Above photo shows KAKUM on the left. Photo copyright of Graeme Turner