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TAMAR F I

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:59 pm

Built as a ro-ro cargo vessel under yard No 278 by Lindstol Skips & Båtbyggerei A/S, Risor, Norway for I/S Leca Vest (Marcussen-Fjeld & Co., Asker).
08 March 1978 keel laid down.
08 January 1979 launched as the LECA VEST.
Tonnage 199 gr, 172 nt, 490 dwt, dim. 44.87 x 9.02 x 3.34m.
One Alpha-Diesel, 550 bhp, speed 10 kn.
08 February 12979 completed, homeport Kristiansund N, Norway.

She was used in the concrete and general cargo trade on the Norwegian coast. Leca is a trade name for a type of concrete building blocks.
1992 Sold to the Falkland Island Dev. Corp., Falkland Islands, and renamed TAMAR F.I.
She was converted to carry livestock and cargo in the Falkland Islands, tonnage increased to 591 gt, 177 nt, 490 dwt.
2009 Sold to Argyll Coastal Services Ltd., Scotland and renamed TAMAR.
2011 Sold to Pacific Royal Shipping Group, Vanuatu, renamed ST. THERESA.
Cyclone and poverty-stricken Tonga has spent the equivalent of about half of New Zealand's cyclone aid to buy a laid up 35-year-old ship owned by former business partners of the royal family.
Until last month (January 2014), the 490 deadweight ton MV ST THERESA was on rotten row in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
Now it is to be operated by the same government agency of Tonga that bought the 42-year-old Fiji ferry, PRINCESS ASHIKA, which sank in 2009 with the loss of 74 lives.
Now known as the Friendly Islands Shipping Agency (Fisa), Tonga, it plans to use ST THERESA to carry containers of aid donated by the Tongan community in New Zealand for victims of last month's Cyclone Ian on Ha'apai.
01 March 2014 renamed in NIUVAKAI. Rechristened by Tonga King Tupoi VI, the name is taken of a former ship belonging to Tonga (also on a stamp Tonga 1972 9s/90s, sg 398/02 http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10350 ).
2015 In service same name and owners FISA, IMO No 7805095.

Falkland Islands 1996 40p sg762, scott654.
Source: Watercraft Philately 2001/62. Marine News. http://www.equasis.org Stuff.
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