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Name: PRINCIPE PERFEITO
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Liner
Launched: 22/09/1960
Completed: 05/1961
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1974
Dimensions: 19393grt, 10608nrt, 8600dwt, 625.0 x 78.9 x 25.5ft
Engines: 4 x Steam turbines, DR geared, 24000shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 20.0knots
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/1961 Companhia Nacional de Navegacao, Lisbon
1976 Far Eastern Shipping Ltd, Bahrein
1976 GTO Corporation, Panama; renamed AL HASA
1979 Fairline Shipping Corp SA, Monrovia; renamed FAIRSKY
1980 Renamed VERA
1981 Sappho Shipping & Trading Corp SA, Panama; renamed MARIANNA IX
1984 Renamed MARIANNA 9
08/07/2001 Broken up
Comments: Built for the Lisbon to Beira service, with calls at various Afrocan ports 'en route'
Accommodation for 200 x 1st class & 800 x tourist class passengers
1976: In use as a stevedores' accommodation vessel
08/07/2001: Arrived at Alang for breaking up by Goyal Traders


Above photo as PRINCIPE PERFEITO is copyright of Malcolm Donnelly

Above photo as PRINCIPE PERFEITO is copyright of Peter Knego

Above photos as PRINCIPE PERFEITO is copyright of Luis Miguel Correia

Above photos as PRINCIPE PERFEITO is copyright of Luis Miguel Correia

Above photos as PRINCIPE PERFEITO is copyright of Luis Miguel Correia

Above photo, showing the recently renamed AL HASA dated 04/06/1971, is copyright of Dennis Maccoy

Above photo as MARIANNA 9 is copyright of C Hoffmann