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Saturday 25 July 2015

Russian general cargo ship Sovietskaya Yakutiya 1972-1998 (Challenger 1998-2002, Cristy ?-?, Givs 2002-2004, Samarga 2004-2007)


IMO 7235355. Built for the U.S.S.R. Northern Shipping Company at the Navashinskiy Shipyard, Navashino, Russia in 1972. Homeport Archangelsk. Speed 11,75 knots. Dimensions 123,5 x 15 x 4,5 metres, gross register tonnage 3.590 tons, net register tonnage 1.804 tons and deadweight 4.000 tons. Renamed Challenger in July 2000, Givs in January 2004 and Samarga in January 2004. As Samarga callsign UFJX, MMSI 273443980 and Mongolia-flagged and owned by Ardis Co. Ltd., Russia. Detained at Gdynia, Poland in 2002, the same year at Gibraltar and again at Kolkata, India in 2004. Sold to in 2007 be broken up in Bangladesh.