Built as a tug/supply vessel under yard no 297 by J.Pattje, Waterhuizen, near Groningen, Netherlands for I/S Norway Supply Ships, at Stavanger, Norway.
24 August 1972, launched under the name WEST ALBATROS.
Tonnage 498 gross, 165 net, 833 dwt., dim. 53.2 x 11.5 x 5.5m, draught 3.8m., length between pp 49.3m.
Powered by two Industrie diesel engines each 2.080 hp, speed 15 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers.
Trials end Sept. 1972.
1980 Sold to Pacific Offshore Ltd., Panama, renamed in CHANTIK.
1982 Used by the ANZAC – Norfolk cable to bring the shore end of that cable at Norfolk Island.
1985 Sold to B.B.T. International Corp., Panama, renamed ABU ADIL.
19 August 1986, struck by an air-launched Iraqi Exocet missile in position 28 n12 N 50 52E (South East from Kharg Island.)
Taken under tow to Kargh Island after a fire on board was extinguished, but the badly damaged vessel later sank in a position of 29 10 30N and 50 25 30E. Four crewmembers lost their life by the attack.
On Norfolk Island 1983 30c sg 314 and 45c sg 315.
Source Blauwe Wimpel. Marine News. Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 by Norman Hooke.