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The Comandante Camilo Cienfuegos, owned by the Republic of Cuba and under the management of the Empresa Navegacion Mambisa, Manzanillo. Built by Stocznia Gdanska, at Gdansk in 1962, she has a length of 504 ft. 11 in.; breadth 63 ft. 7 in., and draft of 27 ft.2 in. A motorship, she is powered by a 6-cylinder Suizer oil engine developing 7,800 b.h.p. The vessel previously appeared on a 2c. Cuban stamp in 1964, and her name had been shortened on the ship's side on that particular stamp because the artist could not get it all in; the stamp was not long enough. SG2320

1988 Renamed in CIUDAD DE CIENFUEGOS.
1988 Sold to Bangladesh shipbreakers and she arrived at Chittagong on 08 April 1988.
She was sold to J.S. Engineering (Pvt) Ltd., who began work scrapping at Sitalpur, Bangladesh on 28 April 1988.

Source: Marine News.

Comandante Camilo Cienfuegos

Cuba, 1964, S.G.?, Scott; 842.