Port of registry Panama City Laid down 23 July 1968 Construction started 23 July 1968 Length 122 m | Yard number 193 Type Oil tanker Launched 10 April 1969 Builder Collingwood Shipbuilding | |
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Name Texaco Chief (1969-1986)
A.G. Farquharson (1986-1998)
Algonova (1998-2006)
Pacifico Trader (2007-present) Identification IMO 6903981
MMSI 372498000 | ||
Algonova was a single-hulled oil tanker laid down on 23 July 1968 by Collingwood Shipbuilding of Collingwood, Ontario, as a crane vessel for Yankcanuck Steamships Ltd. of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. In September 1968 the company decided not to build the ship, and the hull was sold to Texaco Canada Ltd., and redesigned as a single-hulled tanker. The ship was launched on 10 April 1969, and named Texaco Chief. She served on the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River, and on the eastern coast of Canada. In 1986 the Texaco Chief was renamed A.G. Farquharson, after the former president and CEO of Texaco Canada, until laid up at Halifax in October 1996.
The ship was purchased by Algoma Tankers Limited, a subsidiary of Algoma Central Corp., in early 1998 and renamed Algonova. She operated mainly between Sarnia and Thunder Bay, until new regulations requiring double-hulled tankers in North American ports came into force in 2005. A new double-hulled tanker of the same name was commissioned in 2008.
In 2006 the ship was sold to the Belgrave Investors Corporation of Panama City, Panama, and renamed Pacifico Trader. In January 2007 she sailed for Panama, where she now operates as a bunker vessel.