On a long term mooring at Causeway Bay in 1966- picture by IDJ
From a distance it could be mistaken for a 1920s-30s billionaires steam powered plaything, reminiscent of today’s oligarchs’ super yachts rather than a working maintenance vessel.
Moored off the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter for many years during the 1960s was the attractive looking vessel STORE NORDISKE a Danish tele-communications cable ship of the Great Northern Telegraph Company.
It was based in Hong Kong after WW2 to service undersea telecommunication cables in the Far East.
Built 1922-by A/S Nakskovskibs, Nakskov, Denmark.
Length 264.0 ft. Breadth 35.1 ft. Depth 16.6 ft. Gross tonnage 1462. Engines type (Steam or Diesel?) and fuel unknown.
Sold to the Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Company in 1969. Renamed Ohtaka, and in 1972 broken up in Japan.