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SHIP'S HISTORY
Keel laid - October 1974
Launched - April 1975
Delivered - August 1975
(a) Malmros Mariner - Sweden (1978)
(b) Brazilian Pride - Liberia (1986)
(c) Dena - Iran
Beached at Chittagong, Bangladesh 19 May 2000
Scrap price - $148.00/ldt or $7,750,000 (US)
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PARTICULARS
Ship type - Crude Oil Tanker
Gross tonnage - 189,249
Net tonnage - 154,493
Deadweight tonnage - 372,201
L.O.A. - 363.7 m
L.B.P. - 348.0 m
Width overall - 63.48 m
Width moulded - 63.40 m
Draught - 21.8 m
Depth - 28.7 m
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CONSTRUCTION
Yard name - Mitsui Shipbuilding & Eng. Ltd
Country - Ichihara, Japan
Hull number - C996
Engine builder - Mitsui, Tamano, Japan
Number of engines - 1
Engine types - Stal-Laval steam turbine
Horsepower - 45,000 shp (33,100 kW)
Speed - 16 knots
Bow/stern thuster hp - none
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - Former owners, managers, accidents, conversions, cargoes,
voyages, sightings or corrections etc -
Viewer contributions
* 28 October 1986 - Dena was attacked by Iraqi aircraft while she was lying at Kharg Island, Iran. She suffered damage to her engine room
* 28 January 1987 - She was struck and damaged by another Iraqi missile when she was about 110 miles south of Kharg Island, Iran with a full cargo of crude oil
* 23 March 1987 - Dena was struck yet again by another Iraqi air to surface missile while she was anchored off Kharg Island posssibly waiting to load crude oil.
The attack started a fire aboard the ship. She sailed for Dubai for repairs.
* 1 July 1987 - A fourth attack by another Iraqi air to surface missile left Dena seriously ablaze in a position 28.29 North by 50.54 East in the Persian Gulf.
The fire was still burning on 2 July which was ironic since the ship had only recently returned to service with repairs from the previous missle attack.
* She was last owned by the National Iranian Tanker Company for whom she served as a
storage vessel at Kharg Island since 18 July 1999
* Sold to Indian Shipbreakers and apparently arrived off Alang on 19 April 1999
* Resold to breakers in Bangladesh and she arrived at Chittagong on 18 May 2000 - beached 19 May 2000
* While undergoing 'gas-freeing operations' an explosion and
fire occurred on 31 May 2000 killing 17 workers and seriously injuring 60 others
* The fire which was caused by a cutting torch was extinguished about 4 hours afterwards
* Greenpeace subsequently called for regulations aimed at making ship breaking safer
Information sources - Fairplay Internet Ship Register, Lloyds Registers &
Marine News - The World Ship Society
Additional information courtesy - Sylvia Masson - Quebec, Canada
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