M/V Silver Gate

M/V Silver Gate (SICN)

Registration number: 9313

Built new at Howaldtswerke in Kiel as hull number 956 on record time, 1.600 man works in shift in two months. She was delivered in December 1951. Silver Gate could take 1.400 tons bunker in her double-bottom tanks. Silver Gate 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 1966 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 was upload in Helsingborg 1975 and was taken together with California to port of Aalborg 1977 and sold to United Shipping Management and registered in Singapore with Indian command and Indonesian crew and she was renamed to United Vulcan.  Sold for scrapping, she arrived at Lung Ching Steel Enterprise, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 4 September 1979 for dismantling. The scrapping commenced 22 February 1979. She weighed  8960 Dw.ton and had a speed of 22,6 knots. Silver Gate´s first commander was G.Ahlmann and chief engineer R.V.Norrås.