Built as a stern trawler under yard No 222 by Soc. Nouvelle des At. T Ch. De Havre for Soc. Navale Cainnaise (SNC) Anct. Gaston Lanny & Company.
Launched under the name La NORMANDE.
Tonnage 690 grt, 297 net, 406 dwt., dim. 49.99/43.49 x 11.51 x 5.061/5.8m.
One 6-cyl. Atlas MAK engine, 2.000 bhp, speed 14 knots.
February 1975 completed.
2008 Under the name KARAS and registered in NAMIBIA, IMO No 7359759.
Source: Watercraft Philately 1988 page 42.
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