Builder Kockums, Malmö Completed 19 November 1958 Launched 25 August 1958 | Yard number 433 Identification IMO number 5120221 Length 170 m | |
Name Frans Suell (1958-1963)
Orion (1963-1968)
Horizon (1968-1972)
Atheninan Horizon (1972-1982) Owner Rederi AB Malmoil (1958-1963)
Rederi AB Bellis (1963-1968)
Hemisphere SS Corp. (1968-1972)
Athenian Oil Tankers Co. (1972-1982) | ||
M/T Frans Suell was an oil tanker built in 1958, later known as M/T Orion, M/T Horizon and M/T Athenian Horizon.
Ship history
The ship was built at Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad shipyard in Malmö. She was delivered on 19 September to Rederi AB Malmoil who kept her for five years, and was then sold to Rederi AB Bellis and renamed Orion. In 1968 she was sold to Liberian company Hemisphere Steamship Corp. and renamed to Horizon. She was sold again in 1972 to the Greek Athenian Oil Tankers Company who renamed her to Athenian Horizon and kept her until she was broken up at Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan in 1982.
The ship was named after the famous businessman Frans Suell from Malmö.
References
MT Frans Suell Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA