Built as a passenger ferry under yard No. 161 by Chantier Piriou Freres, Concarneau, France for Collective Territoriale de Mayotte, Services des Transports Maritimes.
Launched under the name SALAMA DJEMA II.
Tonnage 290 gross, 181` net, 50 dwt. Dim. 34.8 x 9.8 x 2.35m., draught 1.7m., length bpp. 31.4m.
Powered by two Baudouin 6-cyl oil engines, 332 kW, 450 hp., two propellers, speed 8.8 knots.
Bunker capacity 20m³.
May 1992 delivered to owners, port of registry Dzaoudzi.
She is in the passenger- cargo service between Mamoudzou and Dzaoudzi in Mayotte (Comores Isl.).
2008 http://www.equasis.org gives, still in service IMO No. 9058438
Mayotte 1998 3f80 sg 80
Source: Watercraft Philately Vol 45 pp 39. Bureau Veritas on line.