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El Flamingo

General properties

IMO number: 
5052553
Vessel type: 
TSHD
Flag: 
UK
Built in: 
1950
Yard number: 
779

Physical properties

Length (OA): 
128.9 m
Width: 
17.2 m
Deadweight: 
8420 tons

About this page

Status: 
Historical
Timeframe: 
1950 - 1982
Review: 
Scrapped

Last Updated

1 year 47 weeks ago

About this equipment

6138 g.t., built as the BP tanker 'British Defender' and  in 1965 rebuild by by J Murphy at Charlton-on-Thames on behalf of Marcon RMC Ltd. into a self-unloading hopper dredger with bottom doors, and re-named 'El Flamingo'.

Broken up in Bruges in 1982 after being laid-up since October 1980

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