Container
Express used to transport wheat from Norway to America
before she ended up as a diving attraction in The
Dominican Republic. According to rumors she shall have
been abandoned in the early 1990s due to a dispute on a
price for repairs, and later confiscated by the local
authorities. She was scuttled 12.January 1999 as an
artificial reef, and rest today on a depth of 30 to 35
meter right outside Sominicus Beach in Santo Domingo.
Name:
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Former names:
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Dimensions: |
Container
Express
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( see list below * )
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258,0
x 42,8 x 16,1 f |
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Tons: |
Built: |
Home
Port: |
1482 grt
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Strathclyde ( UK ) 1961
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Belize ( BZ ) |
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Picture: Norbrae in 1972
Courtesy of Shipspotting
* Former names:
1962 BUFFALO, 1972 NORBRAE
1974 ROE DEER, 1977 NEWFOUNDLAND CONTAINER
1985 CARIBBEAN VICTORY, 1986 LEFKIMMI
1988 ST GEORGE, 1992 CONTAINER EXPRESS
Notes:
1972 converted to a container ship, 1482gt
Still listed in Lloyds Register 2006 without
ownership or registration
details
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