Ready to execute her trial 24 July 1957
Photographer Ary Groeneveld
Launched by YVC IJsselwerf, Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands with yard number 110 and completed by Werf de Hoog for account of Compania de Navegacion Rosina, a subsidiary of Compania Argentina de Pesca on 8 February 1957, however the director of Pesca Alfedro Ryan founded his own company Albion Star and registered the Panama-flagged R 3 and her sister ships R1,2, 4 and 5 under the name of Calpe Shipping, bought by Heerema in 1967 and converted into the research and survey ship Explorer for bottom exploring and finally broken up in 1979. IMO 5288372. Dimensions 59,11 x 9,3 metres and gross tonnage 497 tons. As whaler gross tonnage 491 tons.
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