{"id":2482,"date":"2010-05-16T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2010-05-16T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:00:16","slug":"from-the-scrapyard-oujda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"From the scrapyard: Oujda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2484\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_postextex1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_postextex1-296x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"vikingventurer_postextex1\" width=\"296\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_postextex1-296x400.jpg 296w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_postextex1-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_postextex1.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe pair of stretched &#8216;Super Vikings&#8217;, Oujda (ex-Viking Venturer\/ Pride of Hampshire) and Mogador (ex-Viking Valiant\/Pride of Le Havre\/Cherbourg) were sold for scrap earlier in the year and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umm.co.in\/\">Unique Marine Machinery<\/a> have, in the process, taken posession of a couple of items from the former ship, in particular the ship&#8217;s bell and the builder&#8217;s plate from her 1986 rebuilding and these are now available for sale through their website.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2483\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_bell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_bell-485x363.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"vikingventurer_poh_scrap_bell\" width=\"485\" height=\"363\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_bell-485x363.jpg 485w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_bell-162x121.jpg 162w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_bell.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2487\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_convplate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_convplate-485x363.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"vikingventurer_poh_scrap_convplate\" width=\"485\" height=\"363\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_convplate-485x363.jpg 485w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_convplate-162x121.jpg 162w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_scrap_convplate.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>The ships did not have entirely satisfactory final years, bouncing around between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhvferry.com\/oujda_06_1.html\">COMANAV charters<\/a> and service for their owners El Salam. COMANAV latterly were able to source  better-quality charter tonnage and the ships disappeared to the Red Sea, never to return. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2486\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_osd1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_osd1-270x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"vikingventurer_poh_osd1\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_osd1-270x400.jpg 270w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_osd1-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_poh_osd1.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2485\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_oujda05_ext3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_oujda05_ext3-298x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\"vikingventurer_oujda05_ext3\" width=\"298\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_oujda05_ext3-298x400.jpg 298w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_oujda05_ext3-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/vikingventurer_oujda05_ext3.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pair of stretched &#8216;Super Vikings&#8217;, Oujda (ex-Viking Venturer\/ Pride of Hampshire) and Mogador (ex-Viking Valiant\/Pride of Le Havre\/Cherbourg) were sold for scrap earlier in the year and Unique Marine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[565,567,568,164,566],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-oujda","tag-pride-of-hampshire","tag-super-vikings","tag-thoresen","tag-viking-venturer","wpcat-46-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}