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Troopship M.V. "Keren" |
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Built: |
Cammell
Laird & Company Ltd., Birkenhead |
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363552 |
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Dimensions: |
130.08 (BB) x 22.08 x 5.284 metres |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 8987 Net: 4697 |
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Propulsion: |
Four SWD 8cyl 410TM oil engines by Stork-Werkspoor Diesel,
Amsterdam, Holland. Single reduction geared to two variable pitch
propellers |
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Type: |
English Channel
passenger/car ferry |
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Launched: |
14/11/1973 (Yard No. 1361) as St.Edmund for
Passtruck Shipping Co. Ltd., British Railways
Board, London |
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Completed: |
12/1974 |
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Purchased: |
16/2/1983 by the Government of the United Kingdom (Secretary
of State for War) for £7,750,000, and arrived 28/2/1983 in the Tyne for
refitting by Tyne Shiprepair Ltd.
Blue Star Ship Management were appointed managers, but as a result of an
industrial dispute she was commissioned 1/4/1983 as H.M.S. "Keren"
briefly. Transferred back to the M.N. manning following resolution of
industrial dispute. |
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Sold: |
Cenargo and renamed Scirocco. Operated
by Ferrimaroc on an all-year round ro/ro
ferry service between the ports of Almeria, in southern Spain, and Nador, in
north eastern Morocco. |
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M.V. Keren -
Photograph © Ministry of Defence |
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Formerly the British Railways Cross Channel ferry the St.Edmund,
she was chartered by the British Ministry of Defence in the aftermath of the
Falkland War in 1982. Managed by Blue Star Ship Management Ltd., Liverpool, she
operated on a regular trooping run between Ascension Island and Port Stanley,
capital of the Falkland Islands.
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With the addition of extra refrigerated storage carried in the
car decks and a water osmosis plant, she carried approximately 1000 military personnel.
The "passengers" being ferried to and from the vessel by helicopter,
using the added helicopter landing deck which can be seen aft of the funnel.
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| With the completion of the new military airport at Mount
Pleasant (Falkland Islands), enabling wide bodied jets airliners to land, her services were no
longer required and she was sold to the Cenargo
Group who operate the Ferrimaroc service between Almeria, in southern Spain,
and Nador, in north eastern Morocco. |
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As Ferrimaroc's Scirocco
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