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Monday, May 27, 1957 @ 1800
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate 		BENNY SKOU (1951-1966 General cargo ship 390 feet (119 metres) of Ove Skou, Kobenhaven, Denmark : 1980 scrapped in Spain) Own Page

BENNY SKOU left Djibouti (East Africa) for Port Said (Egypt : at Mediterranean end of Suez Canal)
Sailing forPort Said (Egypt : at the northern end = the Mediterranean end, of the Suez Canal)Port of RegistryKobenhaven (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sailed from berthDjibouti, East Africa) ... see the remarks belowNet Tonnage2,402
Gross Tonnage4,248
Deadweght Tonnage6,950

Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area of 23,200 km2 (8,958 sq miles)

   In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established after the ruling sultans signed treaties with the French, and its railroad to Dire Dawa (and later Addis Ababa) allowed it to quickly become the port for southern Ethiopia.

   French Somaliland was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas in 1967.

   In 1977 the Djiboutian people voted for independence.   This officially marked the establishment of the Republic of Djibouti, named after its capital city.

The new state joined the United Nations in its first year 1977.