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Legends & Milestones
The “Ethnos” was
a 1956-built gen-
eral cargo ship,
built in Japan by
Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries for
Costas M. Lemos.
It had a capacity
of 15,756 DWT
and a speed of 18,5
knots.
The “Mobil Astral” being towed into the Hellenic Shipyards of Skaramanga in 1970, in order to be drydocked. With a capacity
of 102,000 DWT, this “super tanker” was the first vessel to “inaugurate” the then-new dry dock at the Hellenic Shipyards of
Skaramanga, which had a total capacity of 240,000 DWT and had cost $10 million.
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