New dry dock opened by Prince Bernhard.
Photo Jan Voets/Anefo. 21 June 1966. Beeldbank Nationale Archief no. CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
Built at the shipyard Dok&Werf Wilton Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 786 in 1966. Netherlands Antilles-flagged, owned by the Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij and completed for Shell tankers Rotterdam. Arrived on 24 January 1985 at Shanghai, China to be broken up. IMO 6608749 and callsign PJKE. Summer deadweight 69.259-70.748 tons, gross tonnage 37.109-38.583 tons, net tonnage 24.817 tons and as dimensions 243,68 x 33,59 x 16,94 x 12,64 metres. The horsepower of 18.900 bhp supplied by a 9 cylinder B&W engine allowed a speed of 16,25 knots. Laid down in 1965?, baptized on 18 February 1966 and handed over on 28 June. She was at that moment the largest tanker ever built by the shipyard. She was the first ship which was docked in the new Wilton Fijenoorddok at Schiedam, Netherlands the largest graven dry dock in the Netherlands.
