At Brunsbuttel, Kiel Canal outlet to the Elbe River.       Naviera Astro took over her management without being the shipowners. She had been a former Shell oil tanker, built in 1942 under the name Nuculana, converted into a bulk carrier. In 1949 she ran aground on the Baldayos beach, in Galicia, being necessary to rescue five powerful tugboats. When they managed to rescue her, she was taken to Ferrol where a major repair was carried out due to major breakdowns.
      Later she was sold and converted into a bulk carrier, which was when Naviera Astro took over her management. Due to the drop in the freight market, she spent time laid up in Santander until the market recovered.
      In one of her trips when she was going to Japan and was near the Suez Canal, it was closed due to the Six Day War. For this reason, she had to turn around and go through the Panama Canal, and as she then loaded into Australia for Bilbao, she went around the world. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1968.

Shipyard / Year	Hawthorn Leslie & Company / 1942
Owner	Anglo-Saxon Petroleum (Shell)
Name	Nuculana
Dead weight	12,000	MT
Gross register	8,179	GRT
Lenght	147.4	mtr
Breadth	18.1	mtr
Depth	10.3	mtr
Propulsion	B&W 4SA 8CYL 650x1400
Power	5,170	H.P.
Speed	12	knots
Bought	1958	by
Owner	North Bulk Carriers Limited
Home port	Liberia - Monrovia
Converted	From tanker to bulkcarrier / 1955
Dead weight	12.019	MT
Gross register	5.449	GRT
Scrapped	Kaohsiung (Taiwan) / 1968

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