IBN KHALDOON

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aukepalmhof
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IBN KHALDOON

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:41 pm

Built as a combined cargo/training vessel under yard No 416 by Helsingør Værft, Elsinor, Denmark for the Iraq Government (Arab Gulf Academy for Maritime Studies).
Launched under the name IBN KHALDOON.
Tonnage 11.333 grt, 5.078 net, 12.670 dwt, dim. 149.1 x 20.8 x 11.55m. , length bpp. 137m, draught 9m.
Powered by two single acting 6-cyl B&W diesel engines, 11.200 hp, trial speed 18.2 knots.
Four cargo holds, three before and one aft the deckhouse, the holds are served by two 5-ton derricks. Additional there is a heavy lift derrick of 75 tons serving hold No 2.
Cargo capacity, grain 13.570m³, bale 12.810m³.
Accommodation for a school staff of 28, 200 cadets and a crew of 62.
Fitted out with stabilisers.
August 1978 completed.

As training vessel was she fitted out as a floating academy containing education facilities, such as classrooms, gymnasium, laboratories for chemical analyses, training workshops, electro mechanic training room and an exercise room.
At that time the intensions were to use her also as a modern freight liner, and the first years of her career she was used as a training/cargo vessel.

26 December 1990 was she boarded by coalition forces in the Gulf of Oman, she not only carried sugar, milk, spaghetti and tea but also around 250 passengers, later identified as “peace activists” protesting the allied embargo of Iraq, by attempting to break through the “blockade” with prohibited cargo.

When the boarding team tried to inspect the vessel they were met by the activists forming a “human chain” to obstruct the team’s passage.
Warning shots were fired into the air by the teams, after several protestors grabbed for their weapons, also used non-lethal smoke and noisemaker grenades for crowed control. No injuries occurred.
After the inspectors located cargo not allowed and violated sanctions she was escorted by US and Australian warships to Muscat Oman.
The activists named the vessel “Peace Ship” and I think that is the reason that she appears on this stamps issued by Iraq in 1993 in two colours inscriptions, red and green. She does not looks like the real IBN KHALDOON, but her name is on the bow.

What and where she was at the later conflict I could not find, but she weathered anyhow it out.

2009 as given by http://www.equasis.org used as a general cargo vessel, owned and managed by the Iraq Governments Ports, IMO No. 7700491.
2003 Given as total loss.

Iraq 1993 2/5d sg?, scott? (Have removed Iraq 1981 50/120f sg1507/08 Mr. Nieuwenhuijzen is correct is she not the same vessel)

Source: Marine News 1979/588. and some web-sites.
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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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Re: IBN KHALDOON

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:00 pm

The ship on stamps 1981, 50 and 120 f. StG.1507/08 is not the IBN KHALDOON, she has a 'Stulcken' mast, the IBN KHALDOON has a 'Bi-Pod' mast and the accommodation is to small for 290 people, see pictures.
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At Almakal port, Albasrah, after Iraqi war 2003
At Almakal port, Albasrah, after Iraqi war 2003

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Re: IBN KHALDOON

Post by dbtml » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:10 pm

I agree that the ship on the 1981 Iraq stamps s.g.1507/8, given as IBN KHALDOON, is definitely not her. I think the ship shown is one of the Govan-built vessels, such as IBN RUSHD, I think there were four of them built there and entered service about 1978/1980. Any takers?

David

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