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S A WINTERBERG

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The fixed-guide containership S.A. WINTERBERG was built under yard No K26 by Chantiers de L'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France for the South African Marine Corporation Ltd., Cape Town.
21 September 1977 keel laid down.
19 May 1978 launched under the name S.A. WINTERBURG, three sisters S.A. HELDERBERG, S.A. SEDERBERG and S.A. WATERBERG, the class is know as the BIG WHITES.
Tonnage 53.050 gross, 32.499 net, 50.819 dwt. Dim. 258.50 x 32.31 x 13.15m.
Powered by two 8-cyl. 2 S.C.S.A. Sulzer 8RND90M, 39.426 bhp., manufactured by Compagnie de Construcion Mec. Sulzer, CCM, Mantes. Two shafts, speed 21 knots.
Two thwartship thrust propellers forward.
Accommodation for 10 passengers.
Can carry 2.464 TEU's containers.
23 November 1978 completed.

1979 Owners restyled as South African Marine Corporation Ltd. (SAFMARINE).
1986 After collision with a harbour wall in Durham she got some damage.
29 December 1992 renamed TRANSVAAL after she was chartered by the German Deutsche-Afrika Linien (DAL), for the service between Europe-to-South Africa (SAECS).
09 November 1995 charter completed and renamed again S.A. WINTERBERG.
1998 Safmarine Ship Management appointed as managers.
1998 Sold to Safmarine Container Line (Pty) ltd., same managers.
1999 Sold to Safmarine (Pty) Ltd., same managers.
February 1999 the Danish A.P.Moller/Maersk Group acquired the Safmarine Container Line, the line continued under the name Safmarine.
17 June 2002 Sold and managed by MC Eagle Shipping, Bahamas, not renamed.
16 December 2002, again managed by Safmarine Ship Management.
04 August 2003 Sold to Danaos Shipping Co. Ltd., Bahamas, same managers, not renamed.
02 February 2004 Sold to Winterberg Maritime, Belgium, managed by Safmarine, not renamed.
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2005, same owners and manager, IMO No 7422192, call sign ONAU.
Under Belgium flag and registry, owners given with a South African address.

2008 Sold to Danaos Shipping Co. Ltd., Panama and renamed WILMINGTON.
2008 Sold to Bangladesh shipbreakers and arrived 24 February 2008 at Chttagong, Bangladesh for demolition.


South Africa 1996 1R50 sg 932.

Marine News 2002/397. 2004/297, some web-sites. Safmarine by W.J.Harvey. Watercraft Philately Vol 43/44.
Attachments
At Chittagong beach
At Chittagong beach
SG932
SG932

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