M/V Seattle

M/V Seattle (SDPN)

Registration number: 8892

Built at Kockums Shipyard as newbuilding 291. She was delivered in November 1947. Seattle could take 1.400 tons bunker in her doublebottomtanks. Seattle 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 1962-63 she was modernised at Reinstahl Nordseewerke in Emden and rebuild for havey fuel oil and the hatches was rebuild with Mac Gregor hatch covers. She was sold to Singapore in 1972 and renamed to Timer Venture. In 1973 she was scrapped  in Taiwan. She was on 9000 Dw.tons and had a speed at 22,6 knots. Seattle´s first commander was O.Gedda and chefengineer B.G.H.Linder.