Built as a tanker under yard No 191 by Ekensbergs Varv, Stockholm for Rederi AB Reut, Kungsbacka, Sweden.
Launched under the name GUSTAF REUTER.
Tonnage 1.296 grt, 836 net, 1.730 dwt, dim. 71.19 x 10.83 x 4.57m.
One 6-cyl Atlas diesel engine, 960 hp., speed 11.5 knots.
12 October 1948 delivered.
After delivery time chartered by a French company.
25 December 1955 during tank cleaning in Ryahamnen, Goteborg a gas explosion took place in tank No 1, whereby one man was killed and the ship severe was damaged.
1956 Was repaired and lengthened to 76.54m., tonnage increased to 1.474 grt, 820 net, 2.100 dwt. After lengthening renamed INGERED REUTER.
1959 Sold to the Bulgarian Tanker Fleet, Bourgas, Bulgaria and renamed KOMSOMOLETZ.
1976 Transferred to Navigation Maritime Bulgare, Varna, Bulgaria.
June sold to Bulgarian shipbreakers and scrapped at Shabla.
(She is wrongly given in Stanley Gibbons, Collect Ship on Stamps as KOMSOMOLS)
Bulgaria 1962 5s sg 1303, scott 1206.
Source: Register of Merchant ships completed in 1948. http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/gustaf_reuter_1948.htm