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SSG No 20 - Shipgaz

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enT MIkkelsen<br />

Two veteran coasters<br />

left <strong>No</strong>rdic waters<br />

Two veteran coasters have left <strong>No</strong>rth European waters after<br />

more than 40 years of service and are headed for a new life in<br />

South American waters. The oldest ship that has sailed south<br />

is the Rigina, which has been flying the Saint Vincent flag for a<br />

number of years, being owned by a Swedish captain.<br />

The Rigina has been under the command of Captain Gudmundsson<br />

of Gävle and a female mate from Belarus and has<br />

been trading strictly between Poland and Denmark. Gudmundsson<br />

has owned the coaster since 1976, when it was<br />

flying the Swedish flag. <strong>No</strong>w the 1957-built coaster is sailing<br />

under the Samoan flag, but still named the Rigina as in Captain<br />

Gudmundsson’s Compania Maritima Rigon S.A of Kingstown.<br />

The ship is of Dutch origin and has been targeted as a<br />

museum coaster several times during the last couple of years in<br />

The Netherlands, but without any luck.<br />

During the last five years the Rigina has been under constant<br />

surveillance by Port State Control officers in Poland, Denmark<br />

and Germany with a number of detentions and differences on<br />

the record.<br />

The Ebba Victor<br />

The other veteran is the half shelter decker Ebba Victor from<br />

Härnösand Kommun. She was sold to a Dutch citizen on his<br />

way to West Africa for a new life when the ship got engine<br />

trouble off Brest in France. At the time of writing the vessel is<br />

still lying at Brest repairing her main engine.<br />

The coaster, built in 1964 at Frederikshavn Værft & Tørdok,<br />

has been a training and school ship since 1979. Delivered in<br />

October 1964 as the Ebba Victor (named after shipowner Niels<br />

Victor’s mother) it was the second of a newly designed coaster<br />

capable of 610 DWT at a gross tonnage of 299 brt. Wonsild &<br />

Søn did the commercial management. She was sold in 1973<br />

and became the Svendborgsund until a sale to Sweden in 1977,<br />

becoming the Nettelil. 1979 she got her original name back at<br />

Härnösand. The Ebba Victor was the last of 16 Danish built<br />

sister ships in <strong>No</strong>rth European waters.<br />

bent mikkelsen<br />

rigina has left european waters for africa after being too familar<br />

with the Port state Control.<br />

AS GOOD ON<br />

LAND AS IN<br />

THE WATER<br />

Frog is Sweden’s leading marine construction<br />

and diving company. We are a genuine amphibious<br />

outfit, equally at home on land as in and<br />

under the water. Our assignments cover everything<br />

from diving work and ship maintenance to<br />

highly advanced marine service and construction<br />

tasks, including consultancy work in construction<br />

technology and ecology. Although our sphere of<br />

operations stretches across the globe, our focal<br />

market is Scandinavia. Our head office is located<br />

in Gothenburg. www.frog.se<br />

Frog employs 70 people in Sweden, and are growing fast.<br />

For round-the-clock emergency service, phone +46 (0)31 23 19 30.<br />

scp reklambyrå

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