FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name NAESS PARKGATE
Type Bulk cargo
Yard Number 520
Launched 20/06/1966
Completed 11/1966
Off. Number 309755
Engine builder Geo. Clark & N.E.M., Sunderland
Engine type 2SCSA 9 cyl. Sulzer
GRT 40858
Length (feet) 820
Beam (feet) 104.3
First owner Turnbull Scott Shipping (Naess Denholm), London
   
History 1974 renamed IRON PARKGATE on charter
  1975 renamed NORDIC TRADER
  1978 PANAMAX URANUS, Camerona Nav. Corporation, Monrovia
  1984 PANAMAX SOLAR, Far Eastern Navigation Corp., Taiwan
   
Fate 07/1985 broken up at Kaohsiung.

Launch day from collection of Michael Green

Photo from Harold Appleyard

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