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Name: HINDUSTAN
Type: Tanker
Launched: 12/05/1976
Completed: 09/1976
Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 91
Dimensions: 19867grt, 11396nrt, 31700dwt, 190.9 x 26.9 x 10.3(draft) metres
Engines: Oil engine, 2SA, Sulzer type, 7cyl (760 x 1550mm), 14000bhp
Engines by: Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Whiteinch, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.0knots
Reg Number: 363067; (IMO: 7343346)
History:
09/1976 Hindustan Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Common Bros (Management) Ltd), Newcastle
1978 Marsden Point Tankers Ltd (Union Steamship Co of New Zealand), Wellington
1978 Renamed AMOKURA
1989 Ship Finance Ltd, Wellington
1993 Fogarty Maritime Co Ltd (Blue Flag Navigation Ltd), Limassol
1993 Renamed TRANSPORTER LT
1998 Green Masters Shipping, Limassol; renamed EASTMAN SPIRIT
2001 Vertig Shipping SA, Limassol; renamed GLOBAL SPIRIT
2003 Registered at Panama; renamed GLOBAL SPIRIT III
2005 Renamed NORTHSEA
2007 Registered at Phnom Penh
29/05/2007 Sank
Comments: 29/05/2007: Hit by lightning, burnt and sank, 135 miles SxW of Lagos


Above photo as HINDUSTAN is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as AMOKURA is copyright of Chris Howell

Above photo as AMOKURA is copyright of Chris Howell

Above photo as AMOKURA is copyright of Stuart Scott