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HANOI

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:19 pm

Stanley Gibbons, Collect Ships on Stamps give for this vessel the name HANOI, comparing the stamp with a photo of the ship, hull form and rigging looks the same but accommodation block is different, the designer of the stamp has altered it or it is a complete different ship.
The ship is showed on the stamp alongside in Haiphong, North Vietnam.

The HANOI was built as a general cargo ship under yard No b54/17 and she did belong to the B54 type.
Built on the yard of Gdanska Lenina, Gdansk for the Polish Ocean Lines (POL).
23 December 1959 launched as the HANOI.
Tonnage 6.914 grt, 3.785 net, 9.953 dwt., dim.153.9 x 19.4 x 8.3m. (draught).
Powered by one 6-cyl Sulzer diesel engine, manufactured by Cegielski, 7.695 hp., single screw, speed 16 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers.
1960 completed.

Used in the liner service from Europe to the Far East.
1983 Sold by POL to Bangladesh shipbreakers and she arrived at Chittagong, Bangladesh on 01 March 1983 for demolition.

North Vietnam 1961 5x and 12x sgN187 and N188, scott?

Source. http:// http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Merchant Ships completed in 1960. Marine News 1983/326.
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