MAPINDUZI
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:32 pm
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard no 1286 by Niigata Engineering Co. Ltd., Niigata, Japan on orders of Nishizawa Ltd, who got the order from the Government of Zanzibar.
Launched as the MAPINDUZI.
Tonnage 3,999 grt, 2,045 net, 1,896 dwt., dim. 109.89 x 16 x 9.50m., length bpp. 97 metre, draught 4.70 metre.
Powered by two Niigata 6MG40 diesels, 3,000 hp, twin shafts, speed 18.93 during trials, service speed 15.5 knots.
Hold capacity 4858.1 m² grain and 4417m² bale.
Accommodation for 707 passengers and 55 crew.
14 September 1974 delivered to the Government of Zanzibar.
She was special built for the service with cargo and passengers between the islands Zanzibar and Pemba to Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania.
Three holds, the two forwards holds for heavy cargo, while the after hold is used for light cargo.
Managed by the Zanzibar Shipping.
Sold by the Zanzibar Government in 2010 for USA$410.000 to Badr East African Enterprises Ltd., Zanzibar at that time she was out of service due to maintenance. Otherwise used in the service between Unguja and Pemba.
She was renamed RAS KIGOMASHA.
Early 2011 she left Zanzibar for Dubai for a USA1.5 million refit and modernisation.
28 January 2011 with on board a 13 men Pakistani crew, during bad weather off the Seychelles near the African bank she sank, the crew of 13 left the vessel in a lifeboat.
According the Seychelles Coastguard they rescued 3 men from a sandbank 130 miles from Mahe, which were left behind when the lifeboat drifted away. When the ships lifeboat reached the bank, the captain sent three men ashore to see of there were people on the uninhabited bank, but before they could board again the lifeboat drifted away.
The 10 men in the lifeboat were later found and rescued. It seems that the engine had failed and she were drifting
The Coastguard gives also that she was underway from Tanzania to India for scrapping.
Tanzania 1984 15s mssg399, scott241.
Source: Guardian on Sunday. http://safety4sea.com Navicula. Log Book.
Launched as the MAPINDUZI.
Tonnage 3,999 grt, 2,045 net, 1,896 dwt., dim. 109.89 x 16 x 9.50m., length bpp. 97 metre, draught 4.70 metre.
Powered by two Niigata 6MG40 diesels, 3,000 hp, twin shafts, speed 18.93 during trials, service speed 15.5 knots.
Hold capacity 4858.1 m² grain and 4417m² bale.
Accommodation for 707 passengers and 55 crew.
14 September 1974 delivered to the Government of Zanzibar.
She was special built for the service with cargo and passengers between the islands Zanzibar and Pemba to Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania.
Three holds, the two forwards holds for heavy cargo, while the after hold is used for light cargo.
Managed by the Zanzibar Shipping.
Sold by the Zanzibar Government in 2010 for USA$410.000 to Badr East African Enterprises Ltd., Zanzibar at that time she was out of service due to maintenance. Otherwise used in the service between Unguja and Pemba.
She was renamed RAS KIGOMASHA.
Early 2011 she left Zanzibar for Dubai for a USA1.5 million refit and modernisation.
28 January 2011 with on board a 13 men Pakistani crew, during bad weather off the Seychelles near the African bank she sank, the crew of 13 left the vessel in a lifeboat.
According the Seychelles Coastguard they rescued 3 men from a sandbank 130 miles from Mahe, which were left behind when the lifeboat drifted away. When the ships lifeboat reached the bank, the captain sent three men ashore to see of there were people on the uninhabited bank, but before they could board again the lifeboat drifted away.
The 10 men in the lifeboat were later found and rescued. It seems that the engine had failed and she were drifting
The Coastguard gives also that she was underway from Tanzania to India for scrapping.
Tanzania 1984 15s mssg399, scott241.
Source: Guardian on Sunday. http://safety4sea.com Navicula. Log Book.