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Booth Line's M.V. "Viajero" |
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Built: |
Norderwerf Koser & Meyer, Hamburg |
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Dimensions: |
266.4 x 41.9 x 15 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 1204 Net: 519 |
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Propulsion: |
Single
screw, 8-Cyl
,4-stroke oil engine of 1480 bhp by M.A.N., Augsburg |
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Type: |
Cargo liner |
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Completed: |
12/1957 as Viajero for the Panama Shipping
Co., on charter to Booth |
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Lengthened: |
1964 to 330.1 ft., increasing her tonnage to 1476 tons |
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Sold: |
1973 along with the Venimos to NAVENAL |
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Became: |
1984 Don Poncho of Corporacian Maritima de
Carga, S.A., Panama |
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Renamed: |
1990 Pigoanza by her owners and condemned for
breaking up |
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Sister ship: |
Venimos |
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Booth Line postcard of Viajero - Fraser Darrah Collection |
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| The launch of the Viajero at Hamburg 1957 - Photographs © Robert
Smark |
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Robert Smark's father was Blue Star Line's Hull Surveyor and stood by the building of her in Hamburg. |
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Viajero
entering the eastern entrance of Dover |
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