HYUNDAI No 1
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:16 pm
Built as a vehicles carrier under yard No 121 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd., Ulsan for Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., Ulsan, South Korea.
27 October 1979 keel laid down.
09 March 1980 launched under the name HYUNDAI No 1.
Tonnage 11.807 grt., 5.921 nrt., 10.803 dwt., dim. 163.91 x 24.7 x 13m, draught 8.01m.
Powered by one 18-cyl Pielstick diesel,11.900hp. (8.606 kW.) manufactured by Nippon Kokan K.K., Tsurumi.
Three decks, can carry 2299 cars.
10 May 1980 completed.
1996 Sold by Universal Union Lines Inc., Panama to Ocean Freedom Shipping S.A., Panama, renamed ETERNAL CLIPPER.
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2004:
2007 Still sailing under Panama flag and same name for Clipper Shipping, Seoul, South Korea, and still managed by Hyundai Merchant Marine. IMO No. 7816903. Call sign 3EHW8.
Tonnage now given as 23.107 gross, 11.663 net, 10.802 dwt.
August 2008 management taken over by Wilhelmsen Ship Management, South Korea.
Marine News 1997/421.Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1980. Korean Register of Shipping.