MV Sugar Transporter

History

Name:	Sugar Transporter
Owner:	Sugar Line Limited
Port of registry:	Cyprus
Route:	United Kingdom – Australia
Builder:	Lithgows Port Glasgow^[1]
Yard number:	1181^[1]
Launched:	25 March 1970^[1]
Fate:	Sank in 1991
General characteristics
Type:	Bulk Carrier
Tonnage:	13,907 GT 20,600 LT DWT^[1]
Length:	550 ft (170 m)^[1]
Beam:	74 ft (23 m)^[1]
Depth:	31 ft (9.4 m)^[1]
Propulsion:	Six-cylinder B&W-Kincaid diesel engine

MV Sugar Transporter was a British built Bulk carrier. It was launched on 25 March 1970 and was sunk at anchorage off Socotra Island near the Horn of Africa in 1991. It was also named the Kefalonia Wind, Sea Transporter, and Sunset. The ship was owned by the Sugar Line Limited, as well as Oceanfever Marine.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?160190

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1991

Shipwrecks	14 Feb: Sanko Harvest 10 Apr: Moby Prince 11 Apr: Haven 4 Aug: Oceanos 23 Aug: Sleipner A August (unknown date): Regina Maris 28 Sep: ARC Blanco Encalada 28 Oct: Andrea Gail 17 Nov: Mon Ami 18 Nov: USS Algol 12 Dec: Churruca 17 Dec: Salem Express Unknown date: HMS Arethusa, Sugar Transporter

Other incidents	18 Feb: USS Princeton, USS Tripoli 20 Nov: Ross Revenge

1990 1992

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