MV Plutonas
Ex Kniepsand
© Fotoflite (20/05/1992)
Steel single screw “Wittsand Class” motor vessel built in 1979 by Buesumer Werft (G.m.B.H.), Buesum. Germany (Yard No 274) as a Refrigerated Cargo ship.
Technical Data
- • Length: 95.61 m (overall) 88.19 m (between perpendiculars)
• Breadth: 12.52 m
• Depth: 7.52 m
• Draught: 4.601/5.750 m
• Tonnage: 2212 gross/1322 net/3097 t deadweight
• Engines: 1 x MAK 6 MU 453 AK, 4 SA-6 cylinder diesel
• Power: 1655 kW/2250HP
• Speed: 14.5 knots
• Capacity: Ins:2410
• Call Sign: P3LO, LYIQ, P3LO, LYIQ, UERU
• MMSI Number: 273449760
• IMO Number: 7808322
• LR Number (1993 – 94): 381180
• Russian Ship Register Number: 784873
• Port of Registry: Limassol/Cyprus 🇨🇾, Klaipeda/Lithuania 🇱🇹, Limassol/Cyprus 🇨🇾, Murmansk/Russia 🇷🇺, Nakhodka/Russia🇷🇺
• Sister-Ship: Rungholtsand (276), Yorksand (275), Basilea (271), Grootsand (268), Wittsand (267)
Current AIS Location
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History
July 7th 1978: Keel laid.
November 11th 1978: Launched.
February 1st 1979: Completed for A.F.Harmstorf & Co. GmbH. Manager: Hanseatic Shipping Co. Ltd.
February 22nd 1979: Christened KNIEPSAND
Lengthened in 1985
June 1985: Charter to Sealanes Shipping Co & Sociedad Argentina de Financiación Marítima SA as KNIEPSAND.
February 1987: Charter to America-Africa-Europe Line GmbH.
© Donaldb (Dover, Granville Dock 1988)
April 1989:
1996: Renamed PLUTONAS and sold to Limarko Shipping Co.
© Fotoflite (15/11/1996)
June 2000: PLUTONAS for owner/manager: Klaipeda Transport Fleet (KTL)
March 8th 2004: PLUTONAS purchased for $0.5 million by Union of Fishing Collective.
July 5th 2004: PLUTONAS for Fishing CooP ” Vskhody Kommunizma”
© Fotoflite (21/11/2006)
© Frits Olinga (River Eems, 21/05/2008)
© Pieter Inpyn (Murmansk, 31/08/2010)
© Marcel and Ruud Coster (Ijmuiden, 09/10/2010)
April 25th 2011: Transferred to owner/manager: Vladkristall Co Ltd.
Article © Nigel Thornton and Ray Goodfellow (Dover Ferry Photos Group)
