SSG No 20 - Shipgaz

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Two veteran coasters
left Nordic waters
Two veteran coasters have left North European waters after
more than 40 years of service and are headed for a new life in
South American waters. The oldest ship that has sailed south
is the Rigina, which has been flying the Saint Vincent flag for a
number of years, being owned by a Swedish captain.
The Rigina has been under the command of Captain Gudmundsson
of Gävle and a female mate from Belarus and has
been trading strictly between Poland and Denmark. Gudmundsson
has owned the coaster since 1976, when it was
flying the Swedish flag. Now the 1957-built coaster is sailing
under the Samoan flag, but still named the Rigina as in Captain
Gudmundsson’s Compania Maritima Rigon S.A of Kingstown.
The ship is of Dutch origin and has been targeted as a
museum coaster several times during the last couple of years in
The Netherlands, but without any luck.
During the last five years the Rigina has been under constant
surveillance by Port State Control officers in Poland, Denmark
and Germany with a number of detentions and differences on
the record.
The Ebba Victor
The other veteran is the half shelter decker Ebba Victor from
Härnösand Kommun. She was sold to a Dutch citizen on his
way to West Africa for a new life when the ship got engine
trouble off Brest in France. At the time of writing the vessel is
still lying at Brest repairing her main engine.
The coaster, built in 1964 at Frederikshavn Værft & Tørdok,
has been a training and school ship since 1979. Delivered in
October 1964 as the Ebba Victor (named after shipowner Niels
Victor’s mother) it was the second of a newly designed coaster
capable of 610 DWT at a gross tonnage of 299 brt. Wonsild &
Søn did the commercial management. She was sold in 1973
and became the Svendborgsund until a sale to Sweden in 1977,
becoming the Nettelil. 1979 she got her original name back at
Härnösand. The Ebba Victor was the last of 16 Danish built
sister ships in North European waters.
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rigina has left european waters for africa after being too familar
with the Port state Control.
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