Category:IMO 7820485

**IMO 7820485**
	ship built in 1980
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Service entry	1980;
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	Q83565282; IMO ship number: 7820485
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Type: Ro/Ro passenger/vehicle ferry
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Built by Schichau-Unterweser A.G. Bremerhaven, Germany
Yard No: 2280
Keel laid:
Launch Date: 12.12.1979
Date of completion: 5.80
Length overall: 131.96
LPP: 126.5
Breadth: 22.7 m moulded
Draught: 5.53 m
GRT: 7951.44 Link: 2395
DWT: 2492
NET: 3439.05
Main engine: three Sulzer 12ZV 40/48 internal combustion engines, each developing 9,000 BHP at the maximum continuous rating and 8,000 BHP at the continuous service rating
Speed: 22 kn service speed
Passenger certificate: 1,300
Car capacity: 350

12.12.1979 Named:HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRICE for Townsend Car Ferries Limited, Dover. Flag: United Kingdom
29.05.1980 Maiden trip: Dover/Calais.
10.07.1980 Crossed between Dover/Calais in a record breaking 52 minutes and 53 seconds.
06.03.1987 at 19:00 Departed Zeebrugge with 573 passengers on board. Approximately 30 minutes after setting sail she capsized 51.22.48N/3.11.26E
07.04.1987 Dutch salvage contractor, Smit-Tak, began work to raise the wreck.
24.04.1987 Towed to Zeebrugge.
14.05.1987 Removed to Vlissingen, Netherlands
30.09.1987 Sold to Compania Naviera S. A. Kingstown, Saint Vincent. Renamed FLUSHING RANGE Flag: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
05.10.1987 Towed in the company of Gaelic Ferry en route to ship breakers in Taiwan.
27.12.1987 Tow lost at position 34.46°S, 24.39°E off Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
02.01.1988 Tow resumed.
22.03.1988 Finally arrived in Taiwan to be broken up in Kaohsiung.

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