FRANCISZEC ZUBRZCKI
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:32 pm
The stamp is by Watercraft Philately 43/49 identified as FRANCISZEK ZUBRZYCKI.
Built as a cargo ship under yard No B438/01 by Stocznia Gdanska Lenina yard, Gedansk for Polish Ocean Lines (POL).
April 1973 launched as the FRANCISZEC ZUBRZCKI the first unit of the B-438 type general cargo vessel of which 15 have been built.
Tonnage10,116 grt, 5,641 net, 11,684 dwt., dim. 160.92 x 22.98 x 9.75m (draught).
Powered by a 6-cylinder Sulzer-Cegelski 6 RND 90 engine, 17,400 bhp., speed 22 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers and a crew of 36.
Five holds, 8 hatches, one shelterdeck.
One 80 ton derrick, 4 of 20 ton and 14 of 5 ton derricks. (The stamp shows a gearless ship, most probably the designer has omitted the derricks.)
A semi-container vessel she could carry 300-320 TEU’s.
Ballast capacity 3,090 ton.
Hold capacity 19,300 m.
November 1973 delivered to owners.
Used in the service Gdynia-Bremerhaven to New York.
1982 Service changed from Poland to Persian Gulf and India.
1991 Sold to Egyptian Co for Export Dev., (Eco Lines), Alexandria, Egypt, renamed ECO SHERIEF.
1994 Renamed in AGYAD.
The same year sold to Indian shipbreakers, and she arrived Alang on 24 December 1994.
03 January 1995 beached at Alang.
Poland 1976 1z50 sg2465, scott2190 (Stanley Gibbons Ships on Stamps give that she is the GENERAL BEM but that was a bulker and she did not have any holds behind the accommodation block.)
Source: Marine News. Comecon Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway.
Built as a cargo ship under yard No B438/01 by Stocznia Gdanska Lenina yard, Gedansk for Polish Ocean Lines (POL).
April 1973 launched as the FRANCISZEC ZUBRZCKI the first unit of the B-438 type general cargo vessel of which 15 have been built.
Tonnage10,116 grt, 5,641 net, 11,684 dwt., dim. 160.92 x 22.98 x 9.75m (draught).
Powered by a 6-cylinder Sulzer-Cegelski 6 RND 90 engine, 17,400 bhp., speed 22 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers and a crew of 36.
Five holds, 8 hatches, one shelterdeck.
One 80 ton derrick, 4 of 20 ton and 14 of 5 ton derricks. (The stamp shows a gearless ship, most probably the designer has omitted the derricks.)
A semi-container vessel she could carry 300-320 TEU’s.
Ballast capacity 3,090 ton.
Hold capacity 19,300 m.
November 1973 delivered to owners.
Used in the service Gdynia-Bremerhaven to New York.
1982 Service changed from Poland to Persian Gulf and India.
1991 Sold to Egyptian Co for Export Dev., (Eco Lines), Alexandria, Egypt, renamed ECO SHERIEF.
1994 Renamed in AGYAD.
The same year sold to Indian shipbreakers, and she arrived Alang on 24 December 1994.
03 January 1995 beached at Alang.
Poland 1976 1z50 sg2465, scott2190 (Stanley Gibbons Ships on Stamps give that she is the GENERAL BEM but that was a bulker and she did not have any holds behind the accommodation block.)
Source: Marine News. Comecon Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway.