IBN KHALDOON ?? 1976

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aukepalmhof
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IBN KHALDOON ?? 1976

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu May 21, 2015 8:10 pm

Mr. Niewenhuijzen did say the cargo/training vessel IBN KHALDOON completed in 1978, is not the ship depict on the stamp issued by Iraq in 1981, and he gives, the stamp shows a vessel with a stulcken mast while the IBN KHALDOON has a bi-pod mast.
I agree that she is not the vessel, by searching around on the internet I found another IBN KHALDOON, (Stanley Gibbons gives that she is IBN KHALDOON, but I can’t find if this is true. Navicula gives that she is a K-class vessel.) Comparing the stamp and photos of that ships class on the internet, I agree with Navicula she is a K-class vessel.
Which vessel is depict is doubtful the name on the stamp when you enlarge the stamp is not readable, but one of the ships of that class of 52 ships is the IBN KHALDOON completed in 1976.
That class was built in the U.K and South Korea. The details of the ships are almost all the same.
The IBN KHALDOON was built as a cargo vessel under yard No 2320 by Hyundai at Ulsan, South Korea for the United Arab Shipping Co, S.A.G. Kuwait.
05 March 1976 laid down.
06 August 1976 launched as the IBN KHALDOON.
Tonnage 15,446 grt, 23,618 dwt, dim. 175.32 x 23.98 x 10.40 (draught), length bpp. 168.10m
One 6-cyl. B&W 6K74EF diesel engine, 15,000 hp, one shaft, speed 16 knots.
The class was more a conventional cargo ship but it was possible to carry 434 TEU’s containers.
December 1976 completed. Under Kuwait flag and registry.

1987 Sold to Goddard Shipping Co., Cyprus and renamed ZEBRA.
1989 Sold to Trade Fir Shipping Inc., Cyprus, renamed TRADE FIR.
1994 Sold to Temple Services Ltd., St Vincent and renamed KRISTEN STAR.
20 December 2000 arrived Chittagong for demolition.
2015 The ships of this class has all been scrapped or deleted from Lloyds Registry

Iraq 1981 50f/120f sg1507/08 scott1032/33.
Source: Marine News. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Internet.
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