The 1906 established Italian Shipping Company – Navigazione Montanari SpA operating in the maritime transport sector, in particular of liquid and gaseous materials has been always a regular caller to Malta.
Today we are featuring the 1963 built tanker MARIANGELA MONTANARI built by Cantiere Navale Felszegi, Muggia in Italy with yard number 72 following the tanker NICOLETTA MONTANARI. She was the second tanker out of 3 with ANTONELLA MONTANARI following her built at the same shipyard.
She was laid down on 10th April 1962, launched a year later and delivered on 16th December 1963 for Bruno & Eredi Arturo Montanari based in Fano, Italy. With 70.2 metres as length overall (loa) . beam of 10.4 m and draft of 4 m she had an engine of 1,050 hp giving her a speed of 12.49 knots and homeported at Trieste.
On 23rd December 1970 the trawler RODI sank in a tragic event, one of the most serious and heaviest of the post-war period on the Riviera at San Benedetto Del Tronto which marred the Christmas holidays throughout that year and which was aggravated by an absurd delay in the operations of recovery of which 10 seafarers, practically the entire crew, lost their lives in that tragedy.
From the report drafted by the then captain of the district office of the port and reconstructed by a historical archivist it was learned that on that day around 1100 hrs the tanker MARIANGELA MONTANARI sailing off the coast of Martinsicuro and headed for San Benedetto communicated that she had sighted the hull of an overturned ship three miles off the mouth of the Tronto.
There are reports that she made also a Jumboisation operation at the shipyards at French Creek, Valletta, Malta.
In 1975 she was sold to Fouquet-Sacop Maritime, France and renamed GINOUSE and reflagged to France.
She was broken up at Marseille, France in 1983.
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