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Africa Palm

Post by shipstamps » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:49 pm


Africa Palm
Cargo built 1971 as JORUNA by VEB Warnewerft, Warnemunde. 6209Gt. L514’ B67’ Dr25’. 2 SA MAN diesel. 8-cyl 11200bhp 18.5knots. Bought by Palm Line 1974 and renamed – Sierra Leone SG643

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Re: Africa Palm

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue May 19, 2009 2:51 am

Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 376 by the Warnow-Werft, Warnemünde, East Germany for Solstad’s Rederi, Norway.
18 November 1971 launched under the name JORUNA.
Tonnage open/closed shelterdecker 6.209/10.008 grt., 2.957/5.451net, 10.099/14.067 dwt.
Dim. 152.9 x 20.3 x 11.9m., length bpp. 146.7m, draught 7.6/9.4m.
Powered by one diesel engine, 11.200 bhp., one propeller, speed 18.5 knots.
Could carry 400 TEU’s.
Before delivered transferred to Lars Rej Johansen & Knut A. Knutsen, Oslo.
1972 Delivered.

1974 Bought by the Palm Line, London for there United Kingdom to West Africa service, renamed AFRICA PALM. She was at that time the largest vessel of the Palm Line.
Early 1983 chartered out and renamed SANTA BARBARA PACIFIC for a world voyage to the Pacific islands and Rabaul, proceeding outwards via the Panama Canal, and back via Suez, returning back in the U.K in September 1983.
After her return she was again named AFRICA PALM.
1984 Sold to Europa Maritime Ltd., Cyprus, renamed MESSARIA.
1987 Sold by Kirunas Shipping Co. Ltd., Cyprus to Shanghai Jin Jiang Shipping Corp. Ltd., China, renamed TONG ZHOU.
1995 Sold to Brilliant Shipping Pte. Ltd., Singapore, renamed BRILLIANT 8.
1997 Renamed by owners in LUXURY.
1997/98 Deleted from Lloyds Registry.

This set of stamps was designed by Laurence Dunn, of which the AFRICA PALM is one. In ”Ships Monthly”, March 1984, he explains why he chose her. “As the Palm Line’s representative, she had to be modern and despite the fact that she was the only one of her type in the fleet, the all-embracing word “Africa” was convenient, since it could not prick any tribal prejudices.

Source: Watercraft Philately CD-ROM A-D. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Marine News.

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