Belgian cargo liner CMB ESPIRIT, imo 7601566/ 164,5m/ 16.030gt/ 18kn; 30/11/1977 completed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki, for Ocean Fleets Ltd., Liverpool; 04/11/1980 BARBER MENESTHEUS operated by Barber Blue Sea with Elder Dempster Lines as managers. Three years later she was sold to Barber Menestheus Shipping Corp of Panama, initially without a change of name but reverting to MENESTHEUS shortly afterwards; 18/04/1984 she was chartered to Woermann Line for services to West Africa and spent some time as the LLOYD PARANÁ when she was chartered to Lloyd Brasileiro. She reverted to being the MENESTHEUS on 29/01/1985 when she returned to Elder Dempster Lines operations; 02/1986 she was sold to Palm Line, a former rival of Elder Dempster but recently acquired by Ocean Transport & Trading Co., renamed APAPA PALM and re-registered at Douglas Isle of Man. She was sold to Cie. Maritime Belge of Antwerp in 1989 and renamed CMB ESPIRIT. Two years later she was transferred to CMB Transport (Luxembourg) S.A. with Aemas Luxembourg S.A. as managers;1992 she was sold to Irvona Ltd of Hong Kong and was managed by Coldwell Ship Management (Agency) Ltd as the WOERMANN EXPERT. She is currently owned by Bocimar NV of Antwerp, Belgium with the same name; 2000 EXPERT; 2001 DELMAS SYCAMORE; 2007 CLIPPER ITAJAI II; 2007 KING SPIRIT; 14/10/2010 arrived Alang for breaking up.
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