RMS Riga goes to Riga

摘要

The small 1,380dwt coaster RMS Riga, built by J.J. Sietas at Hamburg in 1984 as Kirsten, went to the breakers last year, sailing to Riga for eventual scrapping. In recent years she had been a regular visitor to Coole on the weekly RMS Line service running to Steurzelberg on the Rhine in Germany. She carried loads of empty drinks cans to be recycled. In her earlier career she was well known in Cornish ports when named Tudor from 1988 to 2002. Along with her sisterships Pandor and Eldor, she was specifically fitted to carry china clay slurry from the Cornish ports. In 2002 she was renamed RMS Homburg and started trading on the service to Goole, being renamed RMS Riga in 2006 when owned by Riga Shipping of Latvia but chartered to RMS.