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Owners of the Geestcape are Geest Industries Ltd. and she is registered at Boston, Lincs. Tonnages are: gross, 4,338; net 2,056; deadweight 3,800. As there is a tonnage mark painted on each side aft of the load line disc, two sets of tonnages are applicable to the vessel. The figures just quoted apply when the vessel is not loaded beyond the draft indicated by the horizontal line of the tonnage mark. When the vessel is loaded deeper than the mark the following tonnages apply: gross, 7,679; net, 4,119; deadweight, 8,240. Built by Scott's Greenock, her overall length is 409 ft. 7 in., breadth 53 ft. 2 in., depth, 38 ft. 4 in., and draft 21 ft. 11/4 in./28 ft. 10 in. A Sulzer oil engine developing 10,500 bhp gives the ship a speed of 21 knots. SG472

Built as a reefer /cargo vessel under yard 510 by Greenock Dry-dock at Cartsdyke East, for the Geest Industries Ltd. Boston, U.K.
25 March 1966 launched as the GEESTCAPE.
Tonnage 7,679 grt, 8,240 dwt, dim. 149.2 x 19.2 x 11.69m, length bpp.134.7m,
Powered by one Sulzer 7-cyl. 7RD76 diesel, 10,500 bhp, one shaft, speed 21 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers.
September 1966 was she completed by Scott’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock.

Used by the Geest Industries in the service from the U.K. to the West Indies, out general cargo on her homeward voyage loaded with bananas and other tropical fruits.
1975 Sold to Cie Franco-Camerounaise de Nav. Sari, Dunkirk, France, renamed NYOMBE.
1981 Sold to Reefer Services Co. Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas and renamed TURTLE.
While on a voyage from Le Havre to Almeria and Casablanca loaded with general cargo, was she rocked by an explosion in No 5 hold during a storm 20 miles off Ushant on 13 October1983. When the fire spread to the accommodation block the crew abandoned ship, being safely picked up by French Navy helicopters. An attempt was made to take the blazing vessel in tow but she sank late on 16 October about 10 miles south of Ill de Sein during continuing bad weather.

Dominica 1975 50c sg472, scott439
Source: Log Book. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 by Norman Hooke.