Built as a chemical tanker under yard No.148 by Dubigeaon Normandie, Nantes for Stolt Spirit Inc., Liberia. (Managed by Stolt Nielsens rederi, Oslo.)
19 December 1975 launched.
Tonnage 18.567 gross, 13.169net, 31.294dwt, dim. 176.7 x 27.0 x 15.3m., draught 11.6m, length bpp. 169.5m.
Powered by a Sulzer diesel, 17.400bhp. speed 17 knots.
46 Tanks total 36.754 cubic meter.
11 November 1997 she got fire in the engine room, which spread, to the superstructure, while she was moored in the Houston Ship Channel. The next day brought under control. At that time she was loaded with a cargo of staric acid but the fire did not affect this.
She was later settled as a compromised total loss, and laid up in Houston.
She was later sold to a USA company who intend to repair her, but it did not take place.
15 February 2004 under tow of the tug SMITWIJS ROTTERDAM she left Houston, under the flag of Mongolia and renamed in SPIRIT, bound via Cape of Good Hope to Alang in India for scrapping.
She arrived Alang 19 April 2004 and was beached 21 April 2004.
http://www.smitwijs.com.news/news-18.html when you scroll down a little you can find a photo of the SPIRIT towed by the SMITWIJS ROTTERDAM.
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Marine News 1998/52, 241. Log Book. Navicula. Marine News 2004/373.