MONTELUCIA

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Built by Hijos de J.Barreras S.A., Vigo, Spain for Calvo Pesca S.A., Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.
Launched under the name MONTELUCIA.
Tonnage 2.000 gross, dim. 91.90 x 15.20 x 7.1m., draught 2.5m.
Powered by one Wärtsila Diesel Oil 4SA 6-cyl, geared to one shaft, 3.915 bhp, (other source gives 6.690hp.) speed 17 knots. Controllable pitch propeller.
2000 Completed

She was built as a combination fishing boat for side-fishing and purse seiner after tuna.
Equipped with a refrigerated hold with a capacity of 2.554m³, one deck.
The boat sitting on the stern of the vessel is used to steam the net around the shoal of tuna.
To spot the shoals of tuna the vessel has a crow nest in her mast. I have been loading many times from this type of fishing vessels in the earlier 1970s on the west coast of Africa, at that time most of this tuna ships carried a helicopter with a landing platform on top of the wheelhouse, the helicopter was used to search for the tuna, later it was forbidden, there were to many accidents with the helicopters.
Now a days when she are fishing in the vicinity of the coast she charter a plane who look for the tuna, and are given the position through when find to the tuna clippers.

2008 Is given that she has IMO No. 9232668. Gross tonnage 3.007 ton, registered under the flag of El Salvador with homeport La Union.

Source: Watercraft Philately Vol. 51. http://iattc.ucsd.edu/VesselRegister/Ve ... 32&lang=en

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She was completed February 2001.
2023 Same name and owners.

Kiribati 2004 50c sg?, scott 856