PALINDO JAYA 500-1

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Built as a passenger ferry under yard No 121 by P.T.Palyard (PAL), Surabaya, Indonesia for Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (PELNI), Jakarta, Indonesia.
20 August 1993 keel laid down.
13 August 1994 launched as the PALINDO JAYA 500-1.
Tonnage 2,620 grt, 400 dwt. Dim. 74 x 15.20 x 8.20m., length bpp. 68.1m.
Powered by two MAK 8 cylinder oil 8M20 diesel engines, 3,263 bhp, twin screws, speed 14 knots.
Accommodation for 10 first class 11 second and 466 economy class passengers.
01 June 1995 completed.

Parts from assembly supplied by the German yard of Jos L. Meyer, Papenburg.

January 1996 was she renamed in PANGRANGO.

She is used in the services from Buma, Ende, Ketapang, Kupang, Sabu, Sampit, Semarang, Surabaya and Waingapu.
2020 in service IMO No 9072123. Same name and owner, homeport Surabaya.

Indonesia 1996 700r sg2247, scott1661.

Source: http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=8124816 (click on KM PANGRANGO)
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Watercraft Philately March April 2004 page 73.

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

PALINDO JAYA 500-1