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Brief History of Sun Pegasus
SUN PEGASUS which has been laid up in the Cammell Laird wet basin for some considerable time has been sold by Cammell Laird group receivers for what is believed to be around £350,000 to the Syrian Company 'ALMA-MYRA TRANSPORT AND SHIPPING CO LTD'
This company has apparently owns three similar vessels. Following the purchase on Monday this week a Russian Master and Senior Engineers / Electrician are now on board together with Syrian Crewmen to prepare the vessel for sailing.
A very great deal is reported to need doing and it is possible vessel will be towed shortly to North Western Ship Repairers at Bidston Dry Dock for underwater inspection.
SUN PEGASUS was built in Romania to a standard design 7580 GRT -Hull number 782 from Galatz Santierul Naval - Class Romanian Register. Delivered with the name of
CARANSEBES
She was renamed 'SUN PEGASUS' in August 1996 operated by ROMLINE. She was subsequently arrested in Antwerp around late 1997/early 1998 for non payments and languished there until sold by receivers auction on 11th June 1999 being acquired by Cammell Laird Group Plc for a figure of US$1.1Million.
During her period in Belgium she had apparently a skeleton crew and many items on board disappeared - either possibly sold for pocket money or transferred to other similar Romanian vessels. (This is one of a class).
Cammell Laird then had her towed dead ship to the Mersey and into the wet basin where she has languished - not properly laid up and hermetically sealed from elements.
The intention was apparently for Cammell Laird to convert her as a speculative venture into either a 400 passenger cruise vessel - or more likely into a cable layer in which Cammells had the expertise. This was to be done as the next project after completion of the COSTA CLASSICA conversion.
As the other similar vessels in this companies ownership are DNV class it is likely she will be reclassed from Romanian Register to them rather than preferred BV Class as it would take too long to do the new plans and paperwork. Intention is that vessel - if, as and when operational - will trade NW Europe to E.Med with container trunking services. It is likely she will re-flag to Malta. No new name has yet been decided.
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