FIVE BAYS - Monrovia, Liberia       Call sign - SXFI     IMO number - 5013856     Owner - The Flanders Shipping Co. Ltd. Location - Photographed while she was underway at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada     Photograph Date - August 1974     Photographer - Unknown - Willem VanMaanen's collection     Added to archive - 16 Feb 2003     Last updated - 16 Feb 2003

SHIP'S HISTORY   Keel laid -   Launched -   Delivered - June 1959   (a) Amberton - flag ? (1969)   (b) Proestos - Greece (1973)   (c) Five Bays - Liberia (1982)   Arrived at Kaohsiung, Taiwan about 1 June 1980 where she was scrapped

PARTICULARS   Ship type - General cargo   Gross tonnage - 8,401   Net tonnage - 5,310   Deadweight tonnage - 12,376   L.O.A. - 476'2"   L.B.P. - 447'6"   Width overall - 60'3"   Width moulded - 60'0"   Draught - 27'11.75"   Depth - 38'6"

CONSTRUCTION   Yard name - Short Brothers Ltd.   Country - Sunderland, England   Hull number -   Engine builder - N.E. Marine Engineering Company Ltd., Walsend-on-Tyne, England   Number of engines - 1   Engine types - Doxford 3-cylinder diesel   Horsepower - 3,307 bhp   Speed - 13 knots   Bow/stern thuster hp - none

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - Former owners, managers, accidents, conversions, cargoes, voyages, sightings or corrections etc - Viewer contributions * Owned by Armadora Naviera Proestos S.A., Greece from 1969 until 1973 * Owned by The Flanders Shipping Company from 1973 until she was sold for scrapping in 1980 Information sources - Fairplay Internet Ship Register, Lloyds Registers & Marine News - The World Ship Society Additional information -