MV Don Claudio
Appearance
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History | |
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Name | Okinoshima Maru |
Owner | Kansai Kiken KK Co., Ltd. |
Ordered | August 7th, 1965 |
Builder | Sanosayu Co., Ltd. |
Launched | November 2nd, 1965 |
Completed | February 1st, 1966 |
Out of service | 1976 |
Fate | Sold to Negros Navigation |
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Name | Don Claudio |
Owner | Negros Navigation |
Port of registry | Manila |
Route | Manila – Iloilo |
Acquired | 1976 |
Maiden voyage | December 17th, 1976 |
Identification | IMO number: 6603373 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger ferry |
Tonnage | |
Length | 92.6 m (304 ft) |
Beam | 14.4 m (47 ft) |
Draft | 5.4 m (18 ft) |
Depth | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | Single screw |
Speed | 18.4 kn (34 km/h; 21 mph) |
Capacity | 895 passengers |
Crew | 45 crew |
Notes | [1] [2] |
MV Don Claudio was a Filipino passenger ferry built by Sanosayu Dock Co., Ltd. in Japan and launched in 1965 under ownership of Kansai Kiken KK. It was purchased by Negros Navigation in 1976 and renamed Don Claudio. It is recognized for being one of the vessels that witnessed and helped in rescuing survivors from the MV Doña Paz disaster in December 1987.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ psssadmin (2016-07-07). "The M/S Don Claudio". Philippine Ship Spotters Society.
- ^ 関西汽船株式会社工務部 (1966). "沖之島丸: 阪神-奄美-沖縄航路定期貨客船". 関西造船協会誌. 120: 47–53. doi:10.14856/kansaiks.120.0_47.
- ^ "1,480 believed dead in passenger ship-tanker collision - UPI Archives". UPI.
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