Drilling ship laid up eleven years ago. Valencia on 06/09/2007.
Research/Drilling ship
Shipbuilder : Gutehoffnungshuette Sterkrade AG Rheinwerft Walsum - Duisburg. Yard No. 1123
Name of ship : LINERTOR, 1996/01.
Ex name : Berlinertor, 1975/10.
1975 -xx/12: delivered to "VTG Supply Boat Liberia Inc"
(LBR flag, regd Monrovia, ON 6804, c/s ELAA8)
1980: mng "VTG Versorgungsschiffahrt"
(763 GRT, 228 NRT)
1989: mng "O.I.L. Ltd"
1996: To Ocean master Maritime Ltd, renamed LINERTOR
1997: Arrested at Valencia for smuggling of marijuana (in 2002 used as illegal accommodation by homeless and drug-addicts)
2007: spotted basically abandoned in the port of Valencia
2008: Scrapped at Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz (Spain) Thanks for Manuel Hernández Lafuente (
http://www.fotosdebarcos.com) and for pictures and lyrics.