M/V Portland

M/V Portland (SIZN)

Registration number: 9371

Built at Howaldtswerke, Kiel as newbuilding 957. She was delivered in September 1952. Portland could take 1.400 tons bunker in her doublebottomtanks. Portland was equipped with two Kockum-MAN 7-cylinder two - stroke double-acting dieselengine D7Z 72/120A on 16.400 i.h.p. She have seven hatches and ten 3-tons Asea deck cranes and four 5-tons cranes. She has an whole welded hull and built as an open shelterdecker, from the beginning she was planished to go as an closed shelterdecker. In 1965 she was modernised at Howaltswerke in Kiel and rebuild for havey fuel oil and the hatches was rebuild with Mac Gregor hatch covers. She was laid up in Helsingborg in the spring of 1972, she was sold to Five Lakes Shipping Corp. SA, Panama in the summer of 1973 and renamed to Five Lakes. She arrived Kaohsiung in December same year and was scrapped. She was on 8960 Dw.tons and had a speed at 22,6 knots. Portland´s first commander was G.Jernström and chiefengineer S.V.Klang.