FROM THE ARCHIVE:
“MAERSK HAMBURG” moored in Hamburg / Germany, 3 August 1995.
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TYPE: Container
IMO NO: 7505138
52 682 gt / 21 732 nt / 49 217 mdwt
Delivered from S. A. Boelwerf N.V., Tamise / Belgium (Yard no 1494), in 1978.
Name history:
- “ORTELIUS” from delivery in 1978 until 1986
- “NUPTSE” from 1986 until 1988
- “LONDON EXPRESS” from 1988 until 1990
- “ORTELIUS” from 1990 until 1991
- “LONDON EXPRESS” from 1991 until 1992
- “ORTELIUS” a short period in 1992
- “ABERDEEN BAY” from 1992 until 1993
- “MAERSK HAMBURG” from 1993 until 1995
- “DAL KALAHARI” from 1995 until 2004
- “KALAHARI” from 2004 until 2005
- “MSC MANU” from 2005 until breaking in 2009.
Sold from Compania Naviera Manuela SA. (MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA.), Panama to ship breakers in India during 2009.
“MSC MANU” arrived Alang anchorage / India, 17 June 2009, and was beached Alang, 24 June 2009 as her final destination.
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