FROM THE ARCHIVE:
“LE CASTELLET” / reg. Port aux Francais, departing Southampton UK, 21 January 1996.
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TYPE: Vehicle carrier
IMO NO: 8020044
7930 gt / 840 nt / 2437 mdwt
Delivered from Chantiers Navals de La Pallice – La Rochelle-Pallice / France (Yard no 1234), in 1982.
Name history:
- “LE CASTELLET” from delivery in 1982 until breaking in 2008/2009.
Vessel was in 2008 sold from United European Car Carriers (UECC) Ltd., Portugal to the shipbreakers Simsekler Ltd., Turkey.
“LE CASTELLET” was beached in Aliaga / Turkey, 20 December 2008, as her final destination.
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