Yardno. 106      MAI BENTE
MAI BENTE
Type: m.tanker
Keel laid: 1/12 1949, Launched: 15/ 6 1950, Delivered: 27/11 1950
Dim: 159,09 x 19,50 x 9,07 m.
9.907 grt., 5.929 nrt., 16.200 dwt.
Mainengine: Oil 2SA 9-cyl. 6.750 bhp, manufactured by Gotaverken, Gothenburg.  

History:
Ordered at May 1947 by the Norwegian shipowner Christian F.Bonnevie and come to be the yards first tanker contract and the first build tanker. The ship was registered at Skips A/S Kim, Oslo, Norway and was already by the delivery timechartered to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd., London, for 5 years. The timecharter was lengthened 1955 by 7 years and the tanker was engaged on the tradition tankertrad from Aruba, Curacao or Persian Gulf to Europe or North America.
December 1961 sold to Compania Armadora San Francisco S.p.A., (Transamerican Steamship Corp., New York). Renamed LAGOS EIRE and registered in Panama.
30 June 1976 arrived Barcelona to be broken up.