MV Cunard Ambassador

Launch of Cunard Ambassador

  • Linda Clausen
  • Procyon
  • Raslan

Lloyd 's Register

IMO 7208144

The Cunard Ambassador was a passenger ship that was converted into animal transport.

History

Was built the ship in 1972 under the hull number 666 at Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam. The launch took place on 16 March 1972 the Cunard Ambassador was delivered on 21 October of the same year.

The ship was originally the second one ordered by the Overseas National Airways series of eight ships. This had, however, taken over financially to the project, after which the Cunard took over two of the works contracts. The sister ship of the Ambassador was the Cunard Adventurer which was completed in 1971 at the shipyard Rotterdamsche Dry Dock Maatschappij.

The two ships were used but for week cruises from San Juan (Puerto Rico ) to the other ports in the Caribbean, from New York to Bermuda in the summer from Vancouver to Alaska. The ships proved to be a financial failure, which is why the Cunard Adventurer sold soon. The Cunard Ambassador suffered on September 12, 1974, a positioning trip without passengers a fire aboard. There were no fatalities or injuries to complain on board, then to Key West spent ship, however, was declared a constructive total loss to the total economic loss.

The heavily damaged, but only two years old ship was acquired in March 1975 by the Copenhagen C. Clausen shipping company D / SA / S, which had it rebuilt in the Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona to the freighter for the transport of slaughter sheep from end of April 1975 and in Linda Clausen renamed. In 1980 the ship was sold to the lembu Shipping Corporation, Panama and renamed Procyon. 1983 was sold on the Qatar Transport & Marine Services in Doha, renamed Raslan and burned on July 3, 1983, a trip from Jeddah to Singapore in the Indian Ocean, another time out. The Raslan was then initially launched in Singapore, sold the following year for demolition to Taiwan and completed her last voyage on September 7, 1984 in Kaohsiung.

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