PRESIDENTE STROESSNER
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:20 pm
Built under yard No 90 as a passenger vessel by Ast. T Ruiz de Velasco, Bilbao, Spain for the Government of Paraguay.
Launched under the name PRESIDENTE STROESSNER, at that time the President of Paraguay.
Tonnage 1.174 gross, 745 net, 100 dwt, dim. 255.5 x 32.11 x 4.6ft. (draught).
Powered by two 12-cyl 4 stroke single acting Mannheim motorworks diesels, 1.840 hp., speed ?
Carried 324 passengers.
1966 delivered and managed by Flota Mercante del Estado, Asuncion, Paraguay.
Used in the service Asuncion to Conception and Corrientes.
1991 renamed in BAHIA NEGRA.
December 1997 used in “Ruta Quetzal Argentaria”.
2002 She was last observed semi-sunk at the Trans-Chaco road bridge over the River Paraguay north of Asunción.
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2005 that she is owned and managed by Paraguay Govt. Flota Mercante, Asuncion.
IMO No 6620204, call sign ZPKX
Paraguay 1972 50g sg 1162, scott C398.
Source: Log Book. Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1966. Marine News 2004/600.
Launched under the name PRESIDENTE STROESSNER, at that time the President of Paraguay.
Tonnage 1.174 gross, 745 net, 100 dwt, dim. 255.5 x 32.11 x 4.6ft. (draught).
Powered by two 12-cyl 4 stroke single acting Mannheim motorworks diesels, 1.840 hp., speed ?
Carried 324 passengers.
1966 delivered and managed by Flota Mercante del Estado, Asuncion, Paraguay.
Used in the service Asuncion to Conception and Corrientes.
1991 renamed in BAHIA NEGRA.
December 1997 used in “Ruta Quetzal Argentaria”.
2002 She was last observed semi-sunk at the Trans-Chaco road bridge over the River Paraguay north of Asunción.
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2005 that she is owned and managed by Paraguay Govt. Flota Mercante, Asuncion.
IMO No 6620204, call sign ZPKX
Paraguay 1972 50g sg 1162, scott C398.
Source: Log Book. Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1966. Marine News 2004/600.