| French ro/ro container ship TRANSCONTAINER 1, / 104m/ 2.760gt/ 16kn; 02/1969 completed by Constructions Industrielles de la Mediterranée, La Seyne sur Mer, France, for SNCF, French Railways; 24/10/1974 altered to train ferry; 09/01/1978 collided with STENA NORDICA outside Felixtowe and she was subsequently repaired at Dunkirk; 1986 sold to Pireo Cia. Naviera, SA, Piraeus; 1991 NOUR 1, Corporation Trans SA., Panama, who rebuilt her as passenger ferry in Jordan; 1995 NIOBE 2, Kassimeris Arab Bridge, Panama, registered to Seawater Shipping Co., Ltd., Panama; 12/1995 sold to Rainbow Lines and rebuilt; 1997 Laid up in Igoumenitsa before being introduced for Karia Lines; 1998 registered to Cascade Navigation Corp., Panama; 27/12/2000 arrived Alang for breaking up. |
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