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Starboard broadside view of M.V. ROBERT L.D. at Cardiff Docks. Gear Bulk.

Bulk carrier ROBERT L.D. (2)(12,642gt). Built 1969 by Chantier. de l’Atlantique-Nantes, St Nazaire for Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, and fitted with integrated Kampnagel mobile cranes. She was one of the first to be managed by the “Gearbulk” consortium. 1979 – Sold to Ateliers de la Loire, St. Nazaire(?) and renamed DORIC CARRIER, registered at Piraeus. 2000 – Renamed FOUR M II. 2005 – Chartered renamed DONA 1. 2008 – She briefly returned as FOUR M II in the March of that year but was sold on to Mubark Alnaemi of Egypt in the April, and renamed DOHA 1, managed by Delta Group Shipping. 2008 – Renamed DORA and registered at Tuvalu.