On 24th July 1981 the cargo ship Marianna with capacity 2.999 freight tons filled with barley, iron sheets, water pipes – irrigation and fertilizers collided with a reef, now known as Amara, filled with water and sank. The 24 people whom comprised the crew evacuated safely. The ship had been launched from the dock Aaneveming’s Bedrij Ijesel of Goringhem in Holland in 1961 … read more (9.65mb .pdf file)
Read MoreThe merchant cargo ship OYRANOS was launched on July 2, 1952. Its construction was completed on October 1 of the same year with number 260 at the Noord Nederlandse Scheepswerven Shipyards in Groningen, the Netherlands on behalf of N. V. Kustvaart Unie-Groningeka, In the same year it becomes the property of the company Pinkster Co Amsterdam. Read more …. (pdf)
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