MAIA

Portuguese grab hopper dredger MAIA, imo 5080720/ 73,1m/ 1.014gt/ 12kn; 08/1954 completed by Chantiers e Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre, as MERIGNAC for Worms & Cie., Le Havre; 1955 lengthened from 64m/848gt to 73,1m/ 1.014gt; 1958 CORVO, Mutualista Açoreana Sarl, Lisbon; 1974 MAIA Mutualista Açoreana Sarl, Lisbon; 1976 MAIA, ETE, Lisbon, reduced to a barge; 1998 MAIA, Douro river interests, who re-engined and converted her into a grab hopper dredger to work at upper river Douro.
Seen 2011 at Crestuma, river Douro.