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    Piri (1994)

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    Piri
    Torben Spirit at anchor in Singapore

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    General characteristics
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    Oil tanker

    Length: 244.8 m (803 ft)
    Beam: 41.2 m (135 ft)
    Draft: 14.418 m (47.30 ft)
    Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
    Capacity: Oil: 117,652 m3 (740,010 bbl)

    Piri was an Aframax oil tanker. She was built as Torben Spirit in 1994 at the Onomichi shipyard in Japan and registered in the Bahamian port of Nassau.[1] In December 2012, the vessel was renamed Piri and registered in Saint Kitts and Nevis, whereupon it was sailed to Bangladesh for scrap,[2][3] arriving 30 December 2012.[4]

    A view of the transom of the Torben Spirit showing her name and home port.

    References

    1. ↑ "Torben Spirit (171495)". Shippingdatabase.com. http://www.shippingdatabase.com/ship.php?shipid=171495. 
    2. ↑ "Piri". MarineTraffic.com. http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/9041746. Retrieved 18 July 2014. 
    3. ↑ Lillestolen, Trond (11 January 2013). "End of the road for even more old Zodiac capesizes". Tradewinds News. http://www.tradewindsnews.com/weekly/310273/end-of-the-road-for-even-more-old-zodiac-capesizes. Retrieved 18 July 2014. 
    4. ↑ "GMS Port Report". GMS Weekly 126 (550). 4 January 2013. http://drg.blob.core.windows.net/hellenicshippingnewsbody/pdf/gms/January%2004,%202013.pdf. 





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