SUN BONG tanker

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SUN BONG tanker

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:26 pm

Built as a tanker under yard 654 in 1951 at the Götaverken at Gothenburg, for A/B FERM (Broström), Sweden.
20 September 1951 launched under the name FERMLAND.
Tonnage 10.144 gross, 5.817 net, 15.810 dwt. Dim. 157.03 x 19.56 x 9.25m (draught)
Powered by 8 cyl. diesel, 6.000 hp. speed 14½ knots.
04 December 1951 completed.

1965 Sold to Royal Tankers Inc., Liberia, renamed ROYAL VENTURE.
1974 Sold to People’s Republic, North Korea.
Around 1980 renamed in SUN BONG (not SON as given by Gibbons)
http://www.equassis.org did not mention her more, could not find her in Marine News, so most probably scrapped.
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz gives 1982 deleted by Lloyds Register.

North Korea 1978 30ch sgN1721, scott?
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