One of the strangest-looking vessels ever to come from an Aden shipyard, a location usually associated with dhows, is the car ferry on the 48f stamp of the French Territory of Afars and Issas, the ship being named Goubet after the region at the bottom of the Tadjourah Gulf. She was built by the Den Dockyards, Ltd., to the order of the French Government and after being commissioned was handed over to Afars and Issas Territory. She is on service between Djibouti and Obock, and Djibouti and Fadjourah. Her maiden voyage was on January 2 and 3, 1971, to the Ile du Diable (Devil Island). The ship's particulars are: Gross tonnage, 90; net 73; length 30m. x 8.2m. on deck, 7.0m. at the bottom. Draft with deadweight of 70 tons, 1.0m. Propulsion is by two Poyaud engines of 200 h.p. each driving twin screws and giving a speed of eight knots. Passenger capacity is 40 and the vessel can carry 14 cars or three wagons and six cars, or equivalent vehicle weights up to a gross total weight capacity of 46 tons. SG556 Sea Breezes June 1973