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Name: OPPORTUNITY
Type: Tanker
Launched: 06/10/1975
Completed: 11/1976
Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 63
Dimensions: 262166dwt, 119821grt, 103320nrt, 330.72 x 51.82 x 25.61metres
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, DR Geared, 32000shp
Engines by: GEC Turbine Generators Ltd, Manchester
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: (IMO: 7343097)
History:
11/1976 Tiger Shipping Co Ltd, Chios
1979 Compagnie Nationale de Navigation, Le Havre; renamed THERMIDOR
1988 RL Sapphire Shipping Corp, Liberia; renamed EL OMAR
1989 Great Octopus Shipping Inc, Liberia; renamed NEW RESOURCE
1994 Thai Resource Tanker Inc, Liberia; renamed THAI RESOURCE
2005 Unisoft International Ltd, Kingston; renamed THAI
11/09/2005 Broken up
Comments: Launched as TYNE PRIDE for Swan Maritime Ltd, but delivered as OPPORTUNITY
11/09/2005: Arrived at Chittagong for breaking up
17/09/2005: Breaking up commenced


Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE, dated 27/04/1975, is copyright of Trevor Ermel

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is copyright of Peter Loud

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is copyright of the Evening Chronicle

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is courtesy of Tony Frost

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is copyright of Ron Mapplebeck

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is courtesy of Robert Amess

Above photo as TYNE PRIDE is copyright of Ken Lubi

Above photo as THERMIDOR is copyright of Pieter Melissen