TI AFRICA
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:29 pm
Built under yard No. 5184 as a double-hulled crude tanker by Daewood Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., South Korea for Majestic Shipping (Hellespont Shipping Corporation, Greece).
24 September 2001 keel laid down.
15 December 2001 launched, built under the name DAEWOOD 5184, am not sure of she ever carried this name. Three sisters ships.
Tonnage 234.006 gross, 16.2477 net, 442.470 dwt., dim. 380 x 68 x 24.5m., length bpp. 366m.
Powered by a HSD –Sulzer 9RTA84T-D diesel engine, 37.463 kW, one propellers, speed 17.5 knots.
Cargo capacity 500.282 cubic meter.
03 June 2002 delivered to owners, under the name HELLESPONT METROPOLIS, with homeport Majuro, Marshall Islands. Her registered owner given as Metropolis.
09 November 2002 transferred to Greece flag, with first homeport Andros, later Piraeus.
2004 Sold Africa Tanker Corp., renamed TI AFRICA.
25 July 2004 transferred Belgium flag, with homeport Antwerp.
July 2005 transferred again to Marshal Islands flag and registry.
Who can identify the smaller tanker alongside the TI AFRICA?. Click on stamp to get a larger image of the stamp.
Marshall Island 2006 39c sg?, scott?
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2008. Owned by Africa Tanker Corp., Marshall Islands, managed by OSG Ship Management Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. IMO No. 9224764
source: http://www.eagle.org