General properties

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

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