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Cargo ship Elikon in port of Avonmouth 1980
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 No: 5849   Contributor: Marcel Gommers   Year: 1980   Manufacturer: Burntisland SB, UK   Country: United Kingdom
Cargo ship Elikon in port of Avonmouth 1980

Photo of the cargo vessel Elikon (IMO 5344865), berthed at Avonmouth, England, in 1980.
The cargo ship Elikon was built as the Sungate at Burntisland SB, Scotland, in 1958. She measured a loa of 140.9m, beam 18.3 and 8370 GT.
The Sungate changed name to Elikon in 1968, Lisa in 1981 and Montevideo in 1983. She was scrapped in 1984 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Photo with thanks and © P.W. Hobday.
Picture added on 06 July 2008
Comments:
I worked for Turnbull Scott from September 1961 to December 1983. Sungate was the first ship that I stepped on.

Added by John Bateson on 07 September 2010.
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