This page is a record of the time I spent on this ship.
Joined : Shellhaven (London) 21/02/1979.
Sailed to : Pernis, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Europoort, Milford Haven, Le Havre, Aalborg, Rouen, Petit Couronne, Port Jerome, Las Palmas.
Incidents: Partly demolished jetty in Stockholm. Lots of navigation through sheet ice in the Baltic. Saw SS France layed up in the Le Havre estuary.
Paid off : Las Palmas 16/05/1979.
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Ship Name | Acavus |
IMO Number | 5001633 |
Callsign | GXQQ |
Ship Type | Products |
Manager | STUK |
Registered | London |
Flag | British |
Gross Tons | 12326 |
Dwt Tons | 18936 |
Class | 100A1 |
Length | 558.9 ft |
Breadth | 69.5 ft |
Depth | 39.0 ft |
Draft | 30.7 ft |
Capacity | 894000 cu ft |
Plant | Steam |
Engine | 2 Steam Turbine |
Engine Builder | Brown Boveri |
Power | 7500 BHP |
Bunkers | 1645 tons |
Generators | 2 x 400 KW |
Speed | 14.5 k |
Build date | 1958 |
Build yard | Bremer Vulkan |
Scrapped | 1984 |