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ANTARA

Post by shipstamps » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:12 pm


Built under yard No 490 as a floating crane by Orenstein Koppel & Lübecker Maschinenbau AG, Lübeck, Germany for the Iraqi Government (Directorate General of Ports and Navigation).
Launched as ANTARA.
Tonnage 694 grt, 244 net, dim. 33.5 x 21 x 1.40m. (draught)
Powered by two 8-cyl. 4-stroke diesel engines with S.R. reverse gearing.
1954 Completed.

Used in the service on the Shatt-el-Arab River between Fao and Bashra.
She was removed from the list of Directorate General of Ports and Navigation owned vessels, not a cause given, but most probably lost in the war.

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