Built as a ro-ro cargo ship under yard No 1267 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries at Kobe, Japan for Neptune Beta Lines, Singapore.
August 1977 launched as the ANRO TEMASEK.
Tonnage 13,129 grt, 5,683 nrt, 16,657 dwt. Dim. 181.77 x 27.51 x 16.77m, length bpp 168.03m, draught 9.02m.
Powered by one 9-cyl diesel engine, 18,990 bhp, speed 15 knots.
March 1974 completed.
Used in the liner service between Singapore and Australia.
1981 Sold to GATX Leasing (Pacific) Ltd., Singapore. Managed by Neptune Orient Lines. Lengthened: tonnage 16,063 grt, 22,319 dwt., length 212.9m. bpp.199.2m
Container capacity increased with 100 units.
1999 Renamed by owners in APL LOTUS.
2000 Sold to unspecified owners in Panama and reamed CAPE.
Arrived Bombay, India 20 September 2000 for scrapping.
Photo of the ships you can find on http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1043
Singapore 1978 50c sg337, scott310
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Marine News. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1977.
The MATARÓ is the oldest ship model of the Western European culture, she was a carvel built ship of the type in which Columbus in 1492 sailed over the Atlantic to the New World.
The model is made of the wood of the cork tree, and recent research by the University of Utrecht through radiocarbon dating, gives that the wood of which the model is made comes from a tree that was felled around 1470.
The model is believed to come from a church in the Catalan town of Mataró north of Barcelona; the model is since 1929 in possession of the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.
It is assumed that the model is called a nave, an ex-voto. In many churches in Europe were in the late medieval period ship models, often models that sailors were given to the church in thanks for a prosperous voyage or that they were rescued from a shipwreck.
St Maarten 2011 60c sg?, scott?
Source: Internet.
More info on the model is given in the URL below.
http://www.iemed.org/dossiers-en/dossie ... o/anau.pdf




