| IMO number | 5180506 |
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| Call sign | PFGO |
| Construction number | 288 |
| Tonnage | 19.267 ton |
| Beam | 21m |
| Length overall | 169m |
| Year of construction | 1955 |
| Year of renaming/broken up | 1976 |
| Service for Shell | 1955 to 1976 |
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KALYDON
Sailors
Anecdotes
| Date | Visitor | Anecdote |
|---|---|---|
| 02/15/2017 - 10:16 | Coen H. Verbeek |
I sailed my last trip in the merchant marines as a seaman a/b from July 1968 till December 1968 on the ss.Kalydon.We left Rotterdam without being told where we were going, although we expected to be send to Singapore,which would be our home port, from where we would transport fuels for the American war efforts in South- Vietnam.We arrived in Singapore late August or early September and from then until early December we were going back and forth between Singapore (Pulau Bukom)and various South Vietnamese ports.Our first trip was to Saigon ,and on our trip up the Mekong River we were attacked by machine guns and rockets but were not hit fortunately,with our tanks filled into the fill-pipes with highly flammable (explosive)aviation fuels.We were being paid double wages every time we entered Vietnamese waters, and we really earned those wages because over the next three months we were attacked several more times.In early December we were attacked very seriously with heavy weapon! |
| 04/08/2015 - 23:22 | Agaath Buurmans |
hallo zou er heel blij mee zijn vr groet agaath buurmans |
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