M/V Los Angeles

M/V Los Angeles

Registration number: 8989

Built new at Kockums Shipyard as hull number 293. She was delivered in August 1948. Los Angeles could take 1.400 tons bunker in her double-bottom tanks. Los Angeles was equipped with two Kockum-MAN 7-cylinder two - stroke double-acting diesel engine D7Z 72/120A delivering 16.400 i.h.p. She had seven hatches and ten 3-tons Asea deck cranes and four 5-tons cranes. She had an all-welded hull and was built as an open shelterdecker, and orginally planned to go as a closed  shelterdecker. In 1963-64 she was modernized at Aalborg Vaerft A/S and rebuild for heavy fuel oil and the hatches were rebuilt with Mac Gregor hatch covers. She had an engine room explosion on her maiden voyage in the American port of Tacoma and the reefer engineer and the Guaranty engineer were killed and 6 of the crew  hurt. In 1954 a yet another new accident happened to her when she had a fire in hatch number 3. She was sold in 1972 to AB Järnsida in Gothenburg and she was renamed to Gele and sold to Spain the same year. She was scrapped in Spain in 1972. She weighed  9000 Dw.ton and had a speed of 22,6 knots. Los Angeles first commander was Y.Grönvall and chief engineer G.E.Bergström.