Built in 1983 by the STX Finland Rauma, Turku, Finland. Gross tonnage 18.663 tons, summer deadweight 22.911 tons and dimensions 174 x 25 x 8,7 metres. Ex-Tiksi renamed 26 July 1995 and renamed January 2006 Gazellebank. Beached at Chittagong on 21 August 2009 and broken up. The Foylebank was dyr docked and refitted at Port Kelang, Singapore between 10 December 2005 and 21 January 2006 and then renamed Gazellebank. Property f the Bank Line. As the Gazellebank Antigua&Barbuda-flagged and owned by Foylebank Shipping Limited at Isle of Man (Shipspotting.com). Marinetraffic.om confirmed she was Antigua&Barbuda-flagged as the Gazellebank with IMO 8013015 and callsign V2PP2. www.robindesbois,org claimed she was property of Weier Shipping Limited, United Kingdom, detained between 1984 and 1095 at Auckland and measuring 11.277 tons. www.shipsnostalgia.com mentioned that she was second-hand bought by the Ban Line for her Westbound Round-of-the World line. Originally ice-strengthened was she fitted out with a bulbous bow and cargo deep tanks to transport coconut/palm oil on the so-called SoPac service although in 1996 temporarily on the BanlEllerman Service line between South Africa and the Arabian Gulf/India and Pakistan. In 2006 she was acquired by Swire Shipping and via an singe ship company managed by Andrew Weir Shipping although commercially operated by her owner under her new name Gazellebank.
