Pacific Express
1960
(Risaloweska RI-519a)
- Type: Reefer
- Displacement: 3,401 grt / 1671 net / 4200 tdwt
- Dimensions: 368.7 x 52.2 x 25.5 ft.
- Machinery: 2 TEV MAN 8-cyl. diesels, total 6000 bhp, twin screw = knots
- Builder: Kockums Mek. Verksted A/B, Malmö, Sweden, 1940
- Service: Built as Pacific Express for Biorn Biornstad & Co., Oslo, but laid up for duration of WW2. Delivered 10 Sep 1945 to Skibs-A/S Seattle (Bi¿rn Bi¿rnstad & Co.), Oslo. Shown here in charter to Salen, 1960. Sold in Mar 1963 to Erling Hansen Rederi A/S and Skibs-A/S Linea (Erling Hansen), Kristiansand and renamed Ranada. Sold in Oct 1972 to Wan Lung Nav. Co. S/A, Panama, renamed Wan Chun. Drifted ashore off Ijmuiden in a storm on 13 Nov 1972. Sold for breaking up on the spot.
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