Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 41 by Langesunds Mek. Verkstad, Langesund, Norway for Ludwig Lorentzen. Norway.
28 March 1958 launched under the name CEARA.
Tonnage 2.464 grt, 1.172 net, 4.126dwt., dim. 106.5 x 14.4m., length bpp. 97.7m.
Powered by a 5-cyl. B&W diesel engine, manufactured by A/S Akers, Oslo, 3.478 bhp, speed 15 knots.
Open shelterdecker, but with arrangements for both open and closed shelterdeck conditions.
Two holds, four hatches.
1964 Sold to Deutsche Seereederei Rostock, East Germany, renamed HAVEL.
04 August 1964 delivered to the company.
Lloyds Shipping Index of 20 February 1968 gives a tonnage of 3.744 grt, 2.171 net (most probably as closed shelterdecker). At that time was she underway from Beirut to Wismar via Famagusta.
1980 Sold to Kefallonia Shipping Corp. Ltd. Greece, renamed KEFALLONIA.
1981 Sold to Georgios A Shipping Co. Ltd., Greece, renamed GEORGIOS A.
1982 Sold to Ahmad Ayleh et al, Lebanon, renamed TARABLOS.
1985 Sold to Northern Shipping Co., Lebanon, renamed SEA NORTH.
1987 Broken up at Gadani Beach, where she arrived 28 December 1987.
Russia 1964 6k sg 3040, scott 2942
Sources: Marine News. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1958. Ship stamp Encyclopaedia.