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HIGHLAND PRINCESS / MARIANNA / SLAPY / GUANGHUA

BUILT IN BELFAST BY HARLAND AND WOLFF, SHE WAS SOLD TO JOHN LATSIS ( ATHENS ) IN 1959 ALONG WITH HER SISTER SHIP 'HIGHLAND HOPE'. HIGHLAND  HOPE WAS RE-NAMED 'MARIANNA', BUT WHEN SHE WAS BROKEN UP SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, HIGHLAND PRINCESS TOOK THE NAME 'MARIANNA' BRIEFLY BEFORE SHE WAS RE-SOLD TO A COMPANY IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, WHO RE-NAMED HER 'SLAPY'. SHE WAS RE-SOLD AGAIN TO COMMUNIST CHINA IN  1960 AND RE-NAMED 'GUANGHUA'. SHE WAS LATER SCRAPPED.

 

 

 

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