General properties
IMO number:
5052553
Vessel type:
TSHD
Flag:
UK
Built in:
1950
Shipyard:
Yard number:
779
Physical properties
Length OA:
128.90 m
Width:
17.20 m
Deadweight:
8420 tons
About this page
Status:
Historical
Timeframe:
1950 to 1982
Review:
Scrapped
Last updated
4 months 3 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