Shelter deck open, 2 decks, steel built and 3 masts. Launched
by Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam, Netherlands with
yard number 546 on 31 October 1941, seized by Germansm handed over on 13
October 1943t o the German Kriegsmarine as Sperrbrecher 28, part of the 8.
Sperrbrecher Flotille, discovered in May 1945 in a Baltic harbour, used by the
Royal British Navy as depot ship for minesweepers until 24 June 1946, handed
over to the Netherlands on 24 June 1946, arrived at Rotterdam on 2 Augustus
1946, repaired and handed over to the N.V. Maatschappij Vrachtvaart, Rotterdam,
Netherlands as the Tamo, call sign PHWL, on 27 September 1947, renamed Vasilis
in August 1963 and owned/managed by Maya Compañia Naviera S.A., Piraeus, Greece
with call sign SYST, renamed Evandros in 1974, sold in the second half of 1978
to Hughes Bolckow Ltd., Blyth, United Kingdom to be broken up. Arrived on 21
October 1978 at the scrapyard and on 9th November was started with
breaking her up.
The builder manufactured also the 8 cylinder 4.000bhp
2-stroke single-acting oil fuelled engine. Gross tonnage 5.340,00 tons, net tonnage
2.890,00 tons, deadweight 8.785,00 tons of 1.016 kilo, grain capacity 532.000
cubic feet and bale capacity 490.000 cubic feet and as dimensions 421.7 x 59.3 x
24.1 (depth ) feet.
