Built as a bulk carrier under yard No 124 by Georgi Dimitrov, Varna, Bulgaria for Navigation Maritime Bulgare (NMB).
Launched under the name SAKAR.
Tonnage 15.662 grt., 9.721 net, 24.684 dwt., dim. 185.2 x 22.9 x 9.8m., length bpp. 172.1m.
Powered by one 6-cyl. Cegielski/Sulzer diesel engine, 12.000 bhp., one screw speed 16 knots.
Seven holds and hatches, total loading capacity 29.020 cubic meter.
Before delivery renamed in ROJEN.
May 1978 delivered, homeport Varna.
(The name ROZHEN in Stanley Gibbons Collect Ships on Stamps is wrong)
On Bulgaria 1984 42s sg 3139.
2008 as given by http://www.equassis.org in service under same name and owners. IMO No. 7702827.
Source: Comecon Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway. Some web-sites.
ROJEN
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