Document:

Exhibit 4.21

1.   Shipbroker

2.   Place and date

     Seoul, 09/03/2006

3.   Owners/Place of business (Cl. 1)

     KOMARF HOPE 30 Shipping Company, Liberia

4.   Bareboat Charterers/Place of business

     Vitsi Shipping Company Limited, Liberia

5.   Vessel's name, call sign and lag (Cl. 1 and 3)

     M/T Stopless A8GL7, Liberia

6.   Type of Vessel

     Suez Max

7.   GT/NT

     79718/46569

8.   When/Where built

     1991 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Ulsan, Korea

9.   Total DWT (abt.) In metric tons on summer freeboard

10.  Classification society (C1. 3)

     Det Norske Veritas

11.  Date of last special survey by the Vessel's classification society

12.  Further particulars of Vessel (also indicate minimum number of months'
     validity of class certificates agreed acc. To Cl. 3)

13.  Port or Place of delivery (Cl. 3)

14.  Time for delivery (Cl. 4)

     See Clause 4

15.  Cancelling date (Cl. 5)

     April 30, 2006

16.  Port or Place of redelivery (Cl. 15)

     Not applicable

17.  No. of months' validity, of trading and class certificates upon
     redelivery (Cl. 15)

     Six (6) months

18.  Running days' notice if other than stated In Cl. 4

     See Clause 5

19.  Frequency of dry-docking (Cl. 10(g))

20.  Trading limits (Cl. 6)

21.  Charter period (Cl. 2)

     Five (5) years (however, subject to Cl. 32)

22.  Charter hire (Cl. 11)

     US$750,000

23.  New class and other safety requirements (state percentage of Vessel's
     insurance value acc. To Box 29)(Cl. 10(a)(II))

24.  Rate of interest payable acc. To Cl. 11(f) and, if applicable, acc. To
     PART IV

25.  Currency and method of payment (Cl. 11)

     US Dollars, in same day funds

26.  Place of payment; also slate beneficiary and bank account (Cl. 11)

     As to be notified by the Owners to the Charterers

27.  Bank guarantee/bond (sum and place)((Cl. 24)(optional)

28.  Mortgage(s), if any (state whether 12(a) or (b) applies; if 12(b)
     applies state date of Financial Instrument and name of
     Mortgagee(s)/Place of business)(Cl. 12)

     12(b) applies.

     1st  priority  mortgage  dated on or around the date  herewith  in favor of
     Fortis Bank  ("Agent")  as trustee for the benefit of itself,  the relevant
     lenders ("Lenders') and swap providers.

     2nd priority  mortgage dated on or around the date herewith in favor of the
     Charterers securing the Seller's Credit (as defined in Clause 32(a))

     3rd priority  mortgage dated on or around the date herewith in favor of the
     shareholder of the Owners securing the  Shareholder's  Funds (as defined in
     the Loan Agreement. defined in Clause 33)

     Financial Instrument to also include, without limitation, the intercreditor
     agreement and any other agreements in connection with financings related to
     this Charter.

29.  Insurance (hull and machinery and war risks)(state value acc. To Cl.
     13(f) or, if applicable, acc. To Cl. 14(k))(also state if Cl. 14
     applies)

     Each insurance to cover 130% of the Outstanding Project Cost. however,  P&I
     Club insurance to cover the maximum cover available on the market.

     Clause 14 is not applicable.

30.  Additional  insurance  cover,  if any, for Owners'  account limited to (CI,
     13(b) or, if applicable, Cl. 14(g)

     Not applicable

31.  Additional insurance cover, if any, for Charterers' account limited to
     (Cl. 13(b) or, if applicable, CI. 14(g))

     Not applicable

32.  Latent defects (only to be filled in if period other than stated in CI.
     3)

33.  Brokerage commission and to whom payable (Cl. 14(g))

     Not applicable

34.  Grace period (state number of clear banking days)(Cl. 28)

35.  Dispute  Resolution (state 30(a),  30(b) or 30(c); if 30(c) agreed Place of
     Arbitration must be stated (Cl. 30)

     30(a)

36.  War cancellation (indicate countries agreed)(Cl. 26(f))

     Not applicable

37.  Newbuilding Vessel (indicate with "yes" or "no": whether PART III
     applies)(optional)

     No

38.  Name and place of Builders (only to be filled in if PART III applies)

39.  Vessel's Yard Building No. (only to be filled in if PART III applies)

40.  Date of Building Contract (only to be filled in if PART III applies)

41.  Liquidated damages and costs shall accrue to (state party acc. To Cl.
     1)

     a)

     b)

     c)

42.  Hire/Purchase  agreement  (indicate  with  "yes"  or "no"  whether  PART IV
     applies)(optional)

     No

43.  Bareboat  Charter   Registry   (indicate  "yes"  or  "no"  whether  PART  V
     applies)(optional)

     No

44.  Flag and Country of the Bareboat  Charter Registry (only to be filled in if
     PART V applies)

     No

45.  Country of the Underlying Registry (only to be filled in if PART V applies)

     No

46.  Number of additional clauses covering special provisions, if agreed)

     32, 33, 34

PREAMBLE - It is mutually agreed that this Contract shall be performed subject
to the conditions contained in this Charter which shall include PART I and PART
II. In the event of a conflict of conditions, the provisions of PART I shall
prevail over those of PART II to the extent of such conflict but no further. It
is further mutually agreed that PART III and/or PART IV and/or PART V shall only
apply and only form part of this Charter if expressly agreed and stated in the
Boxes 37, 42 and 43. If PART III and/or PART IV and/or PART V apply, it is
further agreed that in the event of a conflict of conditions, the provisions of
PART I and PART II shall prevail over those of PART III and/or PART IV and/or
PART V to the extent of such conflict but no further.

Signature (Owners)                       Signature (Charterers)

 /s/ K.H. Kwan                             /s/ Stamatis Tsantanis
------------------------------           ---------------------------------
K.H. Kwan                                     Stamatis Tsantanis
                                              Attorney-in-fact

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                                     PART II
                    "BARECON 2001" Standard Bareboat Charter

1.   Definitions

     In this  Charter,  the  following  terms  shall  have the  meanings  hereby
     assigned to them:

     "The Owners" shall mean the party identified in Box 3;

     "The Charterers" shall mean the party identified in Box 4;

     "The Vessel" shall mean the vessel named in Box 5 and with  particulars  as
     stated in Boxes 6 to 12.

     "Financial Instrument" means the mortgage, deed of covenant or other such
     financial security instrument and-stated in Box 28.

2.   Charter Period

     In  consideration of the hire detailed in Box 22, the Owners have agreed to
     let and the Charterers have agreed to hire the Vessel for the period stated
     in Box 21 ("The Charter Period").

3.   Delivery
     (not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

     The  Vessel  to be  delivered  under  this  Charter  by the  Owners  to the
     Charterers  shall  be on an as is  where is basis  (and,  at any  rate,  as
     delivered  under the MOA (as  defined  in Clause  4) by the  Charterers  as
     sellers to the Owners as buyers) and without any warranty by the Owner.

4.   Time for Delivery
     (not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

     The delivery of the Vessel under this Charter shall be made  simultaneously
     with the delivery  under the  Memorandum  of Agreement  entered into on the
     same dale herewith by and between the  Charterers as sellers and the Owners
     as buyers ("M0A").

5.   Cancelling
     (not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

     (a)  Should  the  Vessel  not be  delivered  latest by the  canceling  date
          indicated in Box 15 or the  cancellation  date as otherwise  agreed by
          and between the Owners and the Charterers hereunder,  the Owners shall
          propose a new date of cancellation  that reasonably takes into account
          the  time  needed  for  this   Charter   and  the  related   financing
          transactions  to take into  effect and the Owners  shall  accept  such
          proposal.

     (b)  Notwithstanding  Clause  5(a)  above,  if it appears  with  reasonable
          certainty the delivery of the Vessel under this Charter cannot be made
          due to the failure in the related financing transactions or otherwise,
          this Charter may be cancelled by a mutual agreement between the Owners
          and the Charterers.

6.   Trading Restrictions

     The Vessel shall be employed in lawful  trades for the carriage of suitable
     lawful merchandise within the trading limits indicated in Box 20.

     The  Charterers  undertake not to employ the Vessel or suffer the Vessel to
     be employed otherwise than in conformity with the terms of the contracts of
     insurance  (including any warranties  expressed or implied therein) without
     first  obtaining  the  consent  of the  insurers  to  such  employment  and
     complying  with such  requirements  as to extra premium or otherwise as the
     insurers may  prescribe.  The  Charterers  also undertake not to employ the
     Vessel or suffer her employment in any trade or business which is forbidden
     by the law of any  country  to which the  Vessel  may sail or is  otherwise
     illicit  or in  carrying  illicit  or  prohibited  goods  or in any  manner
     whatsoever  which  may  render  her  liable to  condemnation,  destruction,
     seizure or confiscation.

     Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in this Charter it is agreed
     that  nuclear  fuels or  radioactive  products  or waste  are  specifically
     excluded  from the  cargo  permitted  to be loaded or  carried  under  this
     Charter.  This exclusion does not apply to radio-isotopes  used or intended
     to be  used  for  any  industrial,  commercial,  agricultural,  medical  or
     scientific  purposes  provided the Owners' prior approval has been obtained
     to loading thereof.

7.   Surveys on Delivery and Redelivery
     (not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

     The Owners and Charterers  shall each appoint  surveyors for the purpose of
     determining and agreeing in writing the condition of the Vessel at the time
     of  delivery  and  redelivery  hereunder.  The  Charterers  shall  bear all
     expenses of the On-hire  Survey  including  loss of time,  if any,  and the
     Charterers  shall also bear all expenses of the Off-hire  Survey  including
     loss of time,  if any, at the daily  equivalent  to the rate of hire or pro
     rata thereof.

8.   Inspection

     The Owners shall have the right at any time after giving  reasonable notice
     to the  Charterers  to  inspect  or survey  the  Vessel or  instruct a duly
     authorized surveyor to carry out such survey on their behalf:

     (a)  to ascertain the condition of the Vessel and satisfy  themselves  that
          the Vessel is being properly  repaired and  maintained.  The costs and
          fees for such  inspection or survey shall be paid by the Owners unless
          the Vessel is found to  require  repairs  or  maintenance  in order to
          achieve the condition so provided;

     (b)  in dry-dock if the Charters have not dry-docked her in accordance with
          Clause 10(g).  The costs and fees for such  inspection of survey shall
          be paid by the Charters; and

     (c)  for any other commercial reason they consider  necessary  (provided it
          does  not  unduly  interfere  with  the  commercial  operation  of the
          Vessel).  The costs and fees for such  inspection  and survey shall be
          paid by the Owners.

     All time used in respect of inspection,  survey or repairs shall be for the
     Charters' account and form part of the Charter Period.

     The Charters  shall also permit the Owners to inspect the Vessel's log book
     whenever  requested and shall whenever  required by the Owners furnish them
     with full information regarding and casualties or other accidents or damage
     to the Vessel.

9.   Inventories, Oil and Stores

     A complete  inventory of the Vessel's entire  equipment,  outfit  including
     spare part,  appliances  and of all  consumable  stores on board the Vessel
     shall be made by the Charters in conjunction  with the Owners on redelivery
     of the Vessel. The Charters and the Owners, respectively, shall at the time
     of  redelivery  take  over  and  pay  for  all  bunkers,  lubricating  oil,
     unbroached provisions, paints, ropes and other consumable stores (excluding
     spare  parts) in the said Vessel at the then current  market  prices at the
     ports of delivery,  respectively.  The Charters shall ensure that all spare
     parts  listed in the  inventory  and used  during  the  Charter  Period are
     replaced at their expense prior to redelivery of the Vessel.

10.  Maintenance and Operation

     (a)  (i)  Maintenance  and Repairs - During the  Charter  Period the Vessel
          shall be in the full  possession and at the absolute  disposal for all
          purposes of the  Charters  and under their  complete  control in every
          respect.  The  Charters  shall  maintain  the Vessel,  her  machinery,
          boilers,  appurtenances  and spare parts in a good state of repair, in
          efficient  operating  condition and in accordance with good commercial
          maintenance  practice and at their own expense they shall at all times
          keep  the  Vessel's  Class  fully up to date  with the  Classification
          Society   indicated  in  Box  10  and  maintain  all  other  necessary
          certificates in force at all times.

          (ii) New  Class and Other  Safety  Requirements  - In the event of any
          improvement,  structural  changes or new equipment  becoming necessary
          for the  continued  operation  of the  Vessel  by  reason of new class
          requirements  or by  compulsory  legislation  costing  (excluding  the
          Charters' loss of time) more than the percentage  stated in Box 23, or
          if Box 23 is left blank, 5 per cent of the Vessel's insurance value as
          stated in Box 29, then the Charterers at their own expense shall bear
          the cost of Compliance.

          (iii)  Financial  Security - The  Charters  shall  maintain  financial
          security or  responsibility  in respect of third party  liabilities as
          required by any government,  including federal,  state of municipal or
          other  division or authority  thereof,  to enable the Vessel,  without
          penalty or  charge,  lawfully  to enter,  remain at or leave any port,
          place  territorial  or  contiguous  waters  of any  country,  state or
          municipality  in performance of this Charter  without any delay.  This
          obligation  shall  apply  whether or not such  requirements  have been
          lawfully imposed by such government or division or authority thereof.

          The  Charters  shall  make and  maintain  all  arrangement  by bond or
          otherwise  as may be necessary  to satisfy  such  requirements  at the
          Charters'  sole expense and the Charters  shall  indemnify  the Owners
          against al] consequences  whatsoever  (including loss of time) for any
          failure or inability to do so.

     (b)  Operation for the Vessel - The Charters shall at their own expense and
          by their own procurement man, victual, navigate, operate, supply, fuel
          and,  whenever  required,  repair the Vessel during the Charter Period
          and they shall pay all charges  and  expenses of every kind and nature
          whatsoever  incidental  to their use and operation of the Vessel under
          this Charter;  provided,  however,  that,  all tonnage taxes and other
          ownership related expenses shall be paid by the Owners.

     (c)  The Charterers shall keep the Owners and the  mortgagee(s)  advised of
          the intended employment,  planned dry-docking and major repairs of the
          Vessel, as reasonably required.

     (d)  Flag and Name of Vessel - During  the  Charter  Period,  the  Charters
          shall  have the  liberty  to paint the  Vessel  in their own  colours,
          install  and display  their  funnel  insignia  and fly their own house
          flag.  The  Charters  shall also have the  liberty,  with the  Owners'
          consent,  which shall not be unreasonably withheld, to change the flag
          and/or the name of the Vessel during the Charter Period.  Painting and
          re-painting,   instalment   and   re-instalment,    registration   and
          re-registration,  if required by the Owners, shall be at the Charters'
          expense and time.

     (e)  Changes  to the Vessel - Subject to Clause l  0(a)(ii),  the  Charters
          shall  make no  structural  changes  in the  Vessel or  changes in the
          machinery,  boilers,  appurtenances  or spare parts thereof without in
          each instance  first  securing the Owners'  approval  thereof.  If the
          Owners so agree, the Charters shall, if the Owners so require, restore
          the Vessel to its former  condition  before  the  termination  of this
          Charter.

     (f)  Use of the Vessel's  Outfit,  Equipment and  Appliances - The Charters
          shall have the use of all outfit,  equipment,  and appliances on board
          the  Vessel  at the  time of  delivery,  provide  the  same  or  their
          substantial  equivalent  shall be returned to the Owners on redelivery
          in the same good order and condition as when  received,  ordinary wear
          and tear excepted.  The Charterers  shall from time to time during the
          Charter  Period replace such items of equipment as shall be so damaged
          or worn as to be unfit for use. The Charterers are to procure that all
          repairs  to or  replacement  of any  damaged,  worn or lost  parts  or
          equipment be effected in such manner (both as regards  workmanship and
          quality of materials) as not to diminish the value of the Vessel.  The
          Charterers have the right to fit additional equipment at their expense
          and risk but the Charterers  shall remove such equipment at the end of
          the period if requested by the Owners.  Any equipment  including radio
          equipment on hire on the Vessel at time of delivery  shall be kept and
          maintained  by the  Charterers  and the  Charterers  shall  assume the
          obligations  and liabilities of the Owners under any lease contacts in
          connection  therewith and shall  reimburse the Owners for all expenses
          incurred in connection therewith,  also for any new equipment required
          in order to comply with radio regulations.

     (g)  Periodical  Dry-Docking - The Charters  shall  dry-dock the Vessel and
          clean  and  paint  her  underwater  parts  whenever  the  same  may be
          necessary,  but not less than once during the period  stated in Box 19
          or, if Box 19 has been left blank,  every sixty (60)  calendar  months
          after  delivery  or  such  other  period  as  may be  required  by the
          Classification Society or flag State.

     (h)  Management - Commercial,  technical. and/or operational management of
          the Vessels to be executed by Top Tanker  Management Inc. or any other
          company acceptable to the Agent and KOMARF for the Charier Period.

     (i)  Compliance - The Charterers shall comply with any and all requirements
          under the  International  Management  Code for the Safe  Operation  of
          Ships  and  for  Pollution  Prevention  adopted  by the  International
          Maritime Organisation and applicable law.

     (j)  Financial  Statements - The Charterers  shall submit to the Owners the
          audited  annual   accounts  within  180  days  of  the  year  end  and
          semi-annual management accounts within 90 days of the half- year end.

     (k)  Survey  Reports - The  Charterers  shall  supply  the Owners the class
          survey  reports  regularly  including  annual survey and the follow-up
          reports showing,  the recommendation,  if any, has been cleared at the
          Charterer's expense. The Charterers shall put its best efforts to keep
          the condition of the Vessels in compliance with all class certificates
          during the Charter Period.

11.  Hire

     (a)  The  Charterers  shall  pay  hire  due to  the  Owners  punctually  in
          accordance  with the terms of this  Charter  in  respect of which time
          shall be of the essence.

     (b)  The Charterers shall on a monthly basis pay to the Owners for the hire
          of the Vessel a lump sum in the amount indicated in Box 22 which shall
          be payable not later than every  thirty (30)  running days in advance,
          the first lump sum being  payable on the date and hour of the Vessel's
          delivery to the Charterers. Hire shall be paid continuously throughout
          the  Charter  Period.  Each  hire  shall be made free and clear of any
          right of set-off, reduction or delay whatsoever.

     (c)  Payment of hire shall be made in cash without discount in the currency
          and in the manner  indicated  in Box 25 and at the place  mentioned in
          Box 26.

     (d)  Final  payment  of hire,  if for a period  of less  than  thirty  (30)
          running  days,  shall be  calculated  proportionally  according to the
          number of days and  hours  remaining  before  redelivery  and  advance
          payment to be effected accordingly.

     (e)  Notwithstanding  whether the Vessel be lost or missing, the hire shall
          be paid by the Charterers to the Owners as provided for hereunder

     (f)  Any delay in payment of hire shall  entitle  the Owners to interest at
          the rate per annum as agreed in Box 24. If Box 24 has not been  filled
          in, the three months  interbank  offered rate in London  (LIBOR or its
          successor) for the currency stated in Box 25, as quoted by the British
          Bankers'  Association  (BBA) on the  date  when  the  hire  fell  due,
          increased by 2 per cent., shall apply.

     (g)  Payment  of  interest  due  under   sub-clause  11(f)  shall  be  made
          immediately,  whether or not the Owners have given invoice therefor to
          the Charterers.

12.  Mortgage
(only to apply if Box 28 has been appropriately filled in)

     (a)  deleted

     (b)  The Vessel  chartered  under this  Charter is  financed  by a mortgage
          according to the Financial  Instrument.  The  Charterers  undertake to
          comply,  and provide  such  information  and  documents  to enable the
          Owners to comply,  with all such  instructions or directions in regard
          to the employment,  insurances,  operation, repairs and maintenance of
          the  Vessel  as laid  down in the  Financial  Instrument  or as may be
          directed  from time to time during the  currency of the Charter by the
          mortgage(s)  in  conformity   with  the  Financial   Instrument.   The
          Charterers  confirm  that,  for this  purpose,  they  have  acquainted
          themselves with all relevant  terms,  conditions and provisions of the
          Financial  Instrument and agree to acknowledge  this in writing in any
          form that may be required by the motgagee(s).  The Owners warrant that
          they have not effected any mortgage(s) other than stated in Box 28 and
          that they shall not agree to any amendment of the mortgage(s) referred
          to in Box 28 or effect any other mortgage(s) without the prior consent
          of the Charterers which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

     (optional,  Clauses 12(a) and 12(b) are alternatives;  indicate alternative
     agreed in Box 28).

l3.  Insurance and Repairs

     (a)  During the  Charter  Period the  Vessel  shall be kept  insured by the
          Charterers  at  their  expense  against  hull and  machinery,  war and
          Protection  and  Indemnity  risks (and any risks  against  which it is
          compulsory  to  insure  for the  operation  of the  Vessel,  including
          maintaining   financial   security  in  accordance   with   sub-clause
          10(a)(iii)) in such form as the Owners shall in writing approve, which
          approval  shall not be  un-reasonably  withheld.  Further.  during the
          Charter Period.  the Charterers shall at their expense take our effect
          MII MAP and COFR insuring the Vessel and other insurances as the Agent
          or the  shareholder  of the Owners may reasonably  require.  Insurance
          policies for each insurance  above shall name the Owners,  the Lenders
          and the Charterers as beneficiaries, and shall be assigned in favor of
          them. Subject to the provisions of the Financial  Instrument,  if any,
          and the approval of the Owners and the insurers,  the Charterers shall
          effect  all  insured  repairs  and  shall  undertake   settlement  and
          reimbursement  from the insurers of all costs in connection  with such
          repairs as well as insured  charges,  expenses and  liabilities to the
          extent of coverage  under the  insurances  herein  provided  for.  The
          insurances  shall not be subject to any  deduction,  franchise  or any
          other restrictions of similar effect.

          The Charterers  also to remain  responsible  for and to effect repairs
          and  settlement of costs and expenses  incurred  thereby in respect of
          all other repairs not covered by the  insurances  and/or not exceeding
          any  possible   franchise(s)  or  deductibles   provided  for  in  the
          insurances.  All  time  used  for  repairs  under  the  provisions  of
          sub-clause 13(a) and for repairs of latent defects according to Clause
          3(c) above,  including  any  deviation,  shall be for the  Charterers'
          account.

     (b)  deleted

     (c)  The  Charterers  shall  upon  the  request  of  the  Owners,   provide
          information and promptly  execute such documents as may be required to
          enable  the  Owners to comply  with the  insurance  provisions  of the
          Financial Instrument.

     (d)  Subject to the provisions of the Financial Instrument,  if any, should
          the Vessel  become and  actual,  constructive,  compromised  or agreed
          total loss under the insurances  required under sub-clause 1 3(a), all
          insurance  payments for such loss shall be paid to the Agent who shall
          distribute the moneys in accordance with the Financial Instrument. The
          Charterers  undertake  to notify the Owners and the  mortgagee(s),  if
          any, of any  occurrences  in consequence of which the Vessel is likely
          to  become  a total  loss as  defined  in this  Clause  and all  other
          occurrence as required under the Financial Instrument.

     (e)  Subject to the Financial Instrument, the Owners shall upon the request
          of the Charterers,  promptly execute such documents as may be required
          to enable the Charterers to abandon the Vessel to insurers and claim a
          constructive total loss.

     (f)  For the purpose of insurance coverages of each insurance mentioned the
          provisions of sub-clause  13(a),  the insured  amount shall be the sum
          indicated in Box 29.

14.  deleted

15.  Redelivery

     At the expiration of the Charter Period or. if earlier, on the date of sale
     of the  Vessel as  provided  for  under  Clause  32,  the  Vessel  shall be
     redelivered  by the Charterers to the Owners at a safe and ice-free port in
     such ready safe berth as the Owners may direct.  The Charterers  shall give
     the Owners not less than thirty (30) running  days'  preliminary  notice of
     expected date,  range of ports of redelivery or port or place of redelivery
     (which  shall  include  the port or place of  delivery  as  directed by the
     Owners) and not less than fourteen (14) running  days'  definite  notice of
     expected date and port or place of  redelivery  (which shall be the port or
     place of delivery as directed by the Owners). Any changes thereafter in the
     Vessel's position shall be notified immediately to the Owners.

     The  Charterers  warrant that they will not permit the Vessel to commence a
     voyage  (including any preceding ballast voyage) which cannot reasonably be
     expected to be completed in time to allow  redelivery  of the Vessel within
     the  Charter  Period or on the date of sale of the Vessel as  provided  for
     under Clause 32 at the place as directed by the Owners. Notwithstanding the
     above,  should the  Charterers  fail to  redeliver  the  Vessel  within the
     Charter  Period or on the date of sale of the Vessel as provided  for under
     Clause 32 at the place as directed by the Owners,  the Charterers shall pay
     the daily  equivalent to the rate of hire stated in Box 22 plus 10 percent,
     for the number of days by which the  Charter  Period or the date of sale is
     exceeded. All other terms,  conditions and provisions of this Charter shall
     continue to apply.

     Subject to the  provisions of Clause 10, the Vessel shall be redelivered to
     the Owners in the same or as good structure,  state, condition and class as
     that in which she was delivered  free of class  conditions/recommendations,
     fair wear and tear not affecting class excepted. On re-delivery, The Vessel
     shall have been drydocked as per class req ui rement.

     The Vessel upon redelivery  shall have her survey cycles up to date and the
     trading and the national and international  class certificates valid for at
     least the number of months agreed in Box l7.

16.  Non-Lien

     The  Charterers  will not suffer,  nor permit to be continued,  any lien or
     encumbrance  incurred by them or their  agents,  which might have  priority
     over the title and  interest  of the Owners in the Vessel.  The  Charterers
     further agree to fasten to the Vessel in a conspicuous place and to keep so
     fasten  during  the  Charter  Period a notice  reading to the effect of the
     following:

     "This  Vessel is the property of (name of Owners).  It is under  charter to
     (name of  Charterers)  and by the terms of the  Charter  Party  neither the
     Charterers  nor the Master have any right,  power or  authority  to create,
     incur or permit to be imposed on the Vessel any lien whatever. Further, the
     Vessel is subject  to the first  priority  mortgage  dated  [.]in  favor of
     Fortis Bank as trustee acting for itself and the mortgagees thereunder, the
     second  priority  mortgage  dated [.] in favor of [specify  Ihe  Charterers
     name],  and the third priority  mortgage dated [.] in favor of (specify the
     shareholder of the Owners name]"

17.  Indemnity

     (a)  The  Charterers   shall  indemnify  the  Owners,   Korea  Marine  Fund
          Corporation (a Korean  corporation:  "KOMARF"),  the Owners, the Agent
          and the  Lenders and their  respective  successors,  assigns,  agents,
          directors,  shareholders  and  officers  (collectively,   "Indemnified
          Parties")  from  and  against  any  loss,  damage,   claim,  cost  and
          er-expense  incurred  by them  arising  out of or in  relation  to the
          operation  of  the  Vessel  by  the  Charterers  (including,   without
          limitation, costs of operating and maintaining the Vessels (whether by
          the time-charterers or the subcharterers or by whomsoever leased, used
          or  operated),  environmental  claim or those  based on  environmental
          laws),  and against any lien of  whatsoever  nature  arising out of an
          event occurring  during the Charter Period.  If the Vessel be arrested
          or otherwise  detained by reason of claims or liens arising out of her
          operation  hereunder by the Charterers,  the Charterers shall at their
          own  expense  take  all  reasonable  steps  to  secure  that  within a
          reasonable  time the Vessel is released,  including  the  provision of
          bail.

          Without  prejudice to the generally of the  foregoing,  the Charterers
          agree to indemnify the Indemnified Parties against all consequences or
          liabilities arising from the Master,  officers or agents signing Bills
          of Lading or other documents.

     (b)  If the Vessel be arrested or  otherwise  detained by reason of a claim
          or claims  against the Owners,  the Owners  shall at their own expense
          take all reasonable  steps to secure that within a reasonable time the
          Vessel  is  released,   including  the  provision  of  bail.  In  such
          circumstances  the Owners shall  indemnify the Charterers  against any
          loss,  damage or expense  incurred by the Charterers  (including  hire
          paid under this  Charter)  as a direct  consequence  of such arrest or
          detention.

18.  Lien

     The  Owners to have a lien upon all  cargoes,  sub-hires  and  sub-freights
     belonging or due to the  Charterers or any  sub-charterers  and any Bill of
     Lading freight for all claims under this Charter.

19.  Salvage

     All Salvage and towage performed by the Vessel shall be for the Charterers'
     benefit and the cost of repairing damage occasioned  thereby shall be borne
     by the Charterers.

20.  Wreck Removal

     In the event of the Vessel  becoming a wreck or  obstruction  to navigation
     the Charterers  shall  indemnify the  Indemnified  Parties against any sums
     whatsoever  which the  Indemnified  Parties  shall become liable to pay and
     shall pay in consequence  of the Vessel  becoming a wreck or obstruction in
     navigation.

21.  General Average

     The Owner shall not contribute to General Average.

22.  Assignment, Sub-Charter and Sale

     (a)  The  Charterers  shall not assign  this  Charter nor  sub-charter  the
          Vessel on a bareboat  basis except in  accordance  with the  Financial
          Instrument.

     (b)  The Owners  shall not sell the  Vessel  during  the  currency  of this
          Charter except as provided in Clause 32.

23.  Contacts of Carriage

     (a)  The  Charterers  are to procure that all  documents  issued during the
          Charter Period  evidencing the terms and conditions  agreed in respect
          of carriage of goods shall  contain a paramount  clause  incorporating
          any legislation relating to carrier's liability for cargo compulsorily
          applicable in the trade; if no such legislation  exists, the documents
          shall  incorporate  the  Hague-Visby  Rules,  The documents shall also
          contain the New Jason Clause and the Both-toBlame Collision Clause.

     (b)  The Charterers are to procure that all passenger tickets issued during
          the Charter  Period for the carriage of  passengers  and their luggage
          under this Charter shall contain a paramount clause  incorporating any
          legislation  relating to carrier's  liability for passengers and their
          luggage  compulsorily  applicable in the trade; if no such legislation
          exists,  the passenger tickets shall incorporate the Athens Convention
          Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974,
          and any protocol thereto. Delete as applicable

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25.  Requisition/Acquisition

     (a)  In the  event  of the  Requisition  for  Hire  for the  Vessel  by any
          governmental or other competent authority  (hereinafter referred to as
          "Requisition  for Hire")  irrespective  of the date during the Charter
          Period when  "Requisition  for Hire" may occur and irrespective of the
          length thereof and whether or not it be for an indefinite or a limited
          period of time, and  irrespective  of whether it may or will remain in
          force for the remainder of the Charter Period,  this Charter shall not
          be  deemed   thereby  or  thereupon  to  be  frustrated  or  otherwise
          terminated and the Charcters shall continue to pay the stipulated hire
          in the manner provided by this Charter until the time when the Charter
          would have terminated pursuant to any of the provisions hereof.

     (b)  In the event of the Owners  being  deprived of their  ownership in the
          Vessel by any Compulsory  Acquisition of the Vessel or requisition for
          title by any  governmental or other competent  authority  (hereinafter
          referred to as "Compulsory  Acquisition"),  then,  irrespective of the
          date during the  Chateter  Period when  "Compulsory  Acquisition"  may
          occur,  this  Charter  shall not be deemed  thereby or thereupon to be
          frustrated or otherwise terminated and the Charcters shall continue to
          pay the stipulated  hire in the manner  provided by this Charter until
          the time when the Charter would have terminated pursuant to any of the
          provisions hereof.

26.  War

     (a)  For the purpose of this Clause,  the words "War Risks"  shall  include
          any  war  (whether  actual  or  threatened),  act of war,  civil  war,
          hostilities,   revolution,   rebellion,   civil   commotion,   warlike
          operations,  the laying of mines (whether actual or reported). Acts of
          piracy,  acts of  terrorists,  acts of hostility of malicious  damage,
          blockades  (whether  imposed  against  vessels  of  certain  flags  or
          ownership or against certain cargoes or crews or otherwise howsoever),
          by any person,  body,  terrorist or political group, or the Government
          of any state whatsoever, which may be dangerous or are likely to be or
          to become dangerous to the Vessel, her cargo, crew or other persons on
          board the Vessel.

     (b)  The  Vessel,  unless  the  written  consent  of the  Owners  be  first
          obtained, shall not continue to or go through any port, place, area or
          zone  (whether of land or sea),  or any  waterway  or canal,  where it
          reasonably  appears that the Vessel,  her cargo, crew or other persons
          on board the Vessel, in the reasonable judgment of the Owners, may be,
          or are  likely to be,  exposed to War Risks.  Should  the  Vessel,  be
          within any such place as aforesaid,  which only becomes dangerous,  or
          is likely to be or to become  dangerous,  after her entry into it, the
          Owners shall have the right to require the Vessel to leave such area.

     (c)  The Vessel  shall not load  contraband  cargo,  or to pass through any
          blockade,  whether  such  blockade  be imposed on all  vessels,  or is
          imposed  selectively in any way whatsoever  against vessels of certain
          flags or ownership,  or against  certain cargoes or crews or otherwise
          howsoever,  or to proceed to an area where she shall be subject, or is
          likely  to be  subject  to a  belligerent's  right  of  search  and/or
          confiscation.

     (d)  If  the  insurers  of the  war  risks  insurance,  when  Clause  14 is
          applicable, should requires payment of premiums and /or calls because,
          pursuant to the Charterers'orders,  the Vessel is within, or is due to
          enter and remain within, any area or areas which are specified by such
          insurers as being subject to additional premiums because of War Risks,
          then such premiums  and/or calls shall be reimbursed by the Charterers
          to the Owners at the same time as the next payment of hire is due.

     (e)  The Charterers shall have the liberty.

          (i)  to comply with all orders, directions,  recommendations or advise
               as to departures,  arrival,  routes,  sailing in convoy, ports of
               call, stoppages,  destinations,  discharge of cargo, delivery, or
               in any other way whatsoever, which are given by the Government of
               the  Nation  under  whose  flag the  Vessel  sails,  or any other
               Government,  body or group  whatsoever  acting  with the power to
               compel compliance with their orders or directions;

          (ii) to comply with the orders,  directions or  recommendations of any
               war risks  underwriters  who have the  authority to five the same
               under the terms of the war risks insurance; .

         (iii) to comply with the terms of any  resolution  of the  Security of
               the  European  Community,  the  effective  orders  of  any  other
               Supranational  body  which  has the  right to issue  and give the
               same, and with national laws aimed at enforcing the same to which
               the Owners are subject,  and to obey the orders and directions of
               those who are charged with their enforcement.

     (f)  In any and all events of war (whether there be a declaration of war or
          not), the hire shall continue to be paid in accordance with Clause 11.

27.  Termination

     (a)  Charterers'  Default Subject to the Financial  instrument,  the Owners
          shall be  entitled  to  withdraw  the Vessel  from the  service of the
          Charterers and terminate the Charter with immediate  effect by written
          notice to the Charterers if:

          (i)  the  Charterers  fail to pay hire in  accordance  with Clause 11.
               However,  where  there is a failure to make  punctual  payment of
               hire due to  oversight,  negligence,  errors or  omissions on the
               part of the  Charterers or their  bankers,  the Owners shall give
               the Charterers written notice of the number of clear banking days
               stated in Box 34 (as  recognized  at the agreed place of payment)
               in which to rectify the  failure,  and when so  rectified  within
               such number of days  following  the Owners'  notice,  the payment
               shall stand as regular and punctual. Failure by the Charterers to
               pay hire  within  the  number  of days  stated in Box 34 of their
               receiving the Owners'  notice as provided  herein,  shall entitle
               the  Owners  to  withdraw  the  Vessel  from the  service  of the
               Charterers and terminate the Charter without further notice;

          (ii) the Charters fail to comply with the  requirements of:
               (1) Clause 6 (Trading Restrictions)
               (2) Clause 13(a) (Insurance and Reparis)

               Provided that the Owners shall have the option, by written notice
               to the  Charterers,  to give the  Chaerers a specified  number of
               days grace within which to rectify the failure without  prejudice
               to the Owners' right to withdraw and terminate  under this Clause
               if the Charterers fail to comply with such notice;

         (iii) The  Charterers  fail to rectify  any failure to comply with the
               requirements of sub-clause 10(a)(i)  (Maintenance and Repairs) as
               soon as practically possible after the Owners have requested them
               in  writing  so to do and in any  event  so  that  the  'Vessel's
               insurance cover is not prejudiced.

     (b)  Owners'  Default  If the  Owners  shall by any act or  omission  be in
          breach of their  obligations under this Charter to the extent that the
          Charterers  are  deprived  of the use of the  Vessel  and such  breach
          continues  for a period of fourteen  (14) running  days after  written
          notice  thereof has been given by the  Charterers  to the Owners,  the
          Charterers  shall be entitled to terminate this Charter with immediate
          effect by written notice to the Owners.

     (c)  Loss of Vessel  covered by  Insurance

          Despite  the  Vessel  becoming  a  total  loss  or  is  declared  as a
          constructive  or compromised or arranged total loss, so long, as it is
          fully covered by insurance,  the Charterers  shall continue to pay the
          hire at the time and in the  manner as  provided  herein for a maximum
          period of forty  (40) days or until the  insurance  proceeds  shall be
          paid,  whichever occurs first, and any money paid by the Charterers to
          the  Owners  as hire  will be  returned  to the  Charterers  once  the
          insurnce  proceeds are paid. For the purpose of this  sub-clause,  the
          Vessel shall not be deemed to be lost unless she has either  become an
          actual total loss .or agreement has been reached with her underwriters
          is  not  reached  it  is  adjudged  by a  competent  tribunal  that  a
          constructive loss of the Vessel has occurred.

     (d)  Subject to the Agent's prior approval,  either party shall be entitled
          to terminate this Charter with  immediate  effect by written notice to
          the other  party in the  event of an order  being  made or  resolution
          passed for the winding up,  dissolution,  liquidation or bankruptcy of
          the other party (otherwise than for the purpose of  reconstruction  or
          amalgamation)  or if a  receiver  is  appointed,  or  if  it  suspends
          payment,  ceases to carry on business or makes any special arrangement
          or composition with its creditors.

     (e)  The  termination  of this  Charter  shall be without  prejudice to all
          rights   accrued  due  between  the  parties  prior  to  the  date  of
          termination and to any claim that either party might have.

29.  Repossesion

     In the event of the  termination  of this  Charter in  accordance  with the
     applicable  provisions  of Clause 28,  the  Owners  shall have the right to
     repossess the Vessel

     from the  Charterers  at her current or next port of call,  or at a port or
     place  convenient  to  them  without   hindrance  or  interference  by  the
     Charterers,  courts or local authorities.  Pending physical repossession of
     the Vessel in accordance with this Clause 29, the Charterers shall hold the
     Vessel as  gratuitous  bailee only to the Owners.  The Owners shall arrange
     for an authorized  representative to board the Vessel as soon as reasonably
     practicable  following the termination of the Charter.  The Vessel shall be
     deemed  to be  repossessed  by the  Owners  from  the  Charterers  upon the
     boarding of the Vessel by the Owners' representative.  All arrangements and
     expenses relating to the settling of wages, disembarkation and repatriation
     of  the   Charterers'   Master,   officers  and  crew  shall  be  the  sole
     responsibility of the Charterers.

30.  Dispute Resolution

     (a)  This Contract  shall be governed by and  construed in accordance  with
          English law and any dispute  arising out of or in connection with this
          Contract shall be referred to arbitration in London in accordance with
          the Arbitration Act 1996 or any statutory modification or re-enactment
          thereof save to the extent  necessary to give effect to the provisions
          of this Clause.  The arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with
          the London Maritime  Arbitrators  Association  (LMAA) Terms current at
          the time when the arbitration proceedings are commenced.

          The reference shall be to three arbitrators.  A party wishing to refer
          a dispute to arbitration  shall appoint its arbitrator and send notice
          of such  appointment in writing to the other party requiring the other
          party to appoint its own  arbitrator  within 14 calendar  days of that
          notice  and  stating  that  it will  appoint  its  arbitrator  as sole
          arbitrator  unless the other party  appoints  its own  arbitrator  and
          gives notice that it has done so within the 14 days specified.  If the
          other party does not appoint its own  arbitrator  and give notice that
          it has done so within the 14 days  specified,  the party  referring  a
          dispute to  arbitration  may,  without the  requirement of any further
          prior  notice to the  other  party,  appoint  its  arbitrator  as sole
          arbitrator and shall advise the other party accordingly.  The award of
          a sole  arbitrator  shall be binding on both parties as if he had been
          appointed by agreement

          Nothing herein shall prevent the parties agreeing in writing to vary
          these provisions to provide for the appointment of a sole arbitrator.
          In cases where neither the claim nor any counterclaim exceeds the sum
          of US$50,000 (or such other sum as the parties may agree) the
          arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the LMAA Small
          Claims Procedure current at the time when the arbitration proceedings
          are commenced.

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     (d)  Notwithstanding  (a),  (b) or (c) above,  the parties may agree at any
          time to refer to mediation any difference  and/or dispute  arising out
          of or in connection  with this  Contract.

          In the case of a dispute  in  respect  of which  arbitration  has been
          commenced under (a), (b) or (c) above, the following shall apply:

          (i)  Either party may at any time and from time to time elect to refer
               the dispute or part of the dispute to mediation by service on the
               other party of a written notice (the "Mediation  Notice") calling
               on the other party to agree to mediation.

          (ii) The  other  party  shall  thereupon  within 14  calendar  days of
               receipt  of the  Mediation  Notice  confirm  that  they  agree to
               mediation,  in which case the parties  shall  thereafter  agree a
               mediator within a further 14 calendar days,  failing which on the
               application of either party a mediator will be appointed promptly
               by the  Arbitration  Tribunal ("the  Tribunal") or such person as
               the Tribunal may designate for that purpose.  The mediation shall
               be conducted in such place and in accordance  with such procedure
               and on such  terms as the  parties  may agree or, in the event of
               disagreement, as may be set by the mediator.

         (iii) If the other party does not agree to  mediate,  that fact may be
               brought to the  attention  of the  Tribunal and may be taken into
               account  by  the  Tribunal  when  allocating  the  costs  of  the
               arbitration as between the parties.

          (iv) The mediation  shall not affect the right of either party to seek
               such  relief  or take such  steps as it  considers  necessary  to
               protect its interest.

          (v)  Either  party may advise the  Tribunal  that they have  agreed to
               mediation.  The  arbitration  procedure shall continue during the
               conduct of the  mediation but the Tribunal may take the mediation
               timetable  into account when setting the  timetable  for steps in
               the arbitration.

          (vi) Unless otherwise agreed or specified in the mediation terms, each
               party shall bear its own costs  incurred in the mediation and the
               parties shall share equally the mediator's cost and expenses.

         (vii) The   mediation   process   shall  be  without   prejudice   and
               confidential and no information or documents  disclosed during it
               shall be revealed to the Tribunal  except to the extent that they
               are   disclosable   under   the  law  and   procedure   governing
               arbitration.

     (Note : The  parties  should be aware that the  mediation  process  may not
     necessarily  interrupt  time  limits)

     (e)  If Box 35 in Part I is not  appropriately  filled in, sub-clause 30(a)
          of this Clause shall apply. Sub-clause 30(d) shall apply in all cases.

          *)  Sub-clauses  30(a),  30(b) and 30(c)  are  alternatives;  indicate
          alternative agreed in Box 35.

31.  Notices

     (a)  Any notice to be given by either  party to the other party shall be in
          writing and may be sent by fax, telex,  registered or recorded mail or
          by personal service.

     (b)  The address of the Parties for service of such communication  shall be
          as stated in Boxes 3 and 4 respectively.

32.  Special Provisions

     (a)  Sellers'  Credit:  The  sellers'  credit  (in the amount of 10% of the
          Purchase Price under the MOA,  "Sellers' Credit") shall be paid to the
          Charterers  in a lump sum  payment  upon the sale of the  Vessels  and
          receipt of the full amount of sales proceeds, but not later than three
          (3) months after the expiry of the Charter  Period.  For the avoidance
          of doubt, no interest shall accrue on the Sellers' Credit.

          In the event that the BBC is terminated before the scheduled expiry of
          the Charter Period due to reasons  attributable to the Charterer.  the
          Owner shall be entitled to forfeit an amount of the Seller's Credit up
          to a maximum of the aggregate remaining monthly payments under the BBC
          after the termination  without prejudice to its claims for damages and
          other rights under applicable law or in equity.

          The  Sellers'  Credit shall be secured by a second  priority  mortgage
          over the Vessel ranking behind the first priority mortgages granted to
          the Agent and the Swap Parties.

     (b)  Guarantee:  Top Tankers Inc. shall  unconditionally.  and  irrevocably
          guarantee the  performance of the  Charterers  under this Charter as a
          primary obligor and not merely as a surety.

          Each of the  Charterers  and the charterers to KOMARF HOPE 27 Shipping
          Company.  KOMARF HOPE 28 Shipping  Company and KOMARF HOPE 29 Shipping
          Company (each a Liberian company;  collectively.  "Other  Charterers")
          shall also jointly and  severally  guarantee  the  performance  of the
          charters by the other Charterers.

     (c)  Sale of Vessel during the  Six-Month  Sales  Period:  The  "Six-Months
          Sales Period" shall mean the period from the date falling three months
          prior to the expiry of the Charter  Period to the date falling  three.
          months after the expiry of the Charter Period.

          The "Outstanding Project Cost" shall mean, collectively,  (i) all sums
          outstanding under the Main Financing Documentation. (ii) the principal
          amount of the investment into the SIC by its investors,  and (iii) the
          Seller's Credit.

          The  following  is  applicable  when the  Vessel  is sold  during  the
          Six-Month Sales Period:

          If the net sale proceeds of the Vessel ("Net Sales Proceeds") is lower
          than the  Outstanding  Project  Cost,  such  shortfall  shall be first
          covered by the Charterers up to the amount of USD two (2) million, and
          the Owners will deduct such amount from the Sellers' Credit payable to
          the  Charterers in respect of that Vessel.  If the Net Sales  Proceeds
          are higher than the Outstanding Project Cost, as to such surplus,  the
          first  USD two (2)  million  shall  belong to the  Charterers  and the
          Owners  will pay such  amount to the  Charterers  in  respect  of that
          Vessel upon sale of that Vessel,  and any excess  thereof shall belong
          to the Owners.

     (d)  Sale of the Vessel after the Six Months Sales Period:  The  evaluation
          value  ("Evaluation  Value") of the Vessel shall be the average of the
          quote  obtained from the Selected  Evaluation  Firms,  with each quote
          referring  to the Vessel  price as of the expiry  date of the  Charter
          Period.

          The  Selected  Evaluation  Firms shall be two of the  following  firms
          selected by a mutual agreement  between the Charterers and the Owners:
          One from Clarksons or Simpson Spence & Young and the other from Platou
          or Fearnleys.

          The following is  applicable  when the Vessel is not sold prior to the
          expiry of Six-Month Sales Period:

          If in respect of any Vessel the Evaluation Value for that Vessel is
          lower than the Outstanding  Project Cost relating to that Vessel as of
          the end of the Charter Period, the Owner will deduct such amount up to
          USD 2 million from the Sellers'  Credit  payable to the  Charterers in
          respect of that  Vessel.  If in respect of any Vessel the  Evaluation.
          Value for that  Vessel is higher  than the  Outstanding  Project  Cost
          relating to that  Vessel,  the Owners will pay such amount up to USD 2
          million to the  Charterers  in  .respect of that Vessel on the date of
          expiration of the Six-Month Sales Period.

          The  foregoing  mechanism  shall not be affected even where the actual
          sales price of the Vessel is different from the Evaluation Value.

     (f)  Sale of the Vessel before the Six Months Sales Period:  The Owners may
          sell  the  Vessels  at  any  time  after  three  (3)  years  from  the
          commencement of the Charter Period,  subject.  however, to an approval
          thereof by the relevant subcharterer(s). if any.

          If the Net Sales Proceeds is lower than the Outstanding  Project Cost,
          the Sellers'  Credit will be payable to the  Charterers  in respect of
          that  Vessel in full.  If the Net Sales  Proceeds  are higher than the
          Outstanding  Project  Cost,  the Owners  will pay the  Charterers  the
          Seller's  Credit in respect of that Vessel in full,  and an additional
          amount up to:

          o    USD 4 million if the sale is concluded during the 4th year of the
               Charter.

          o    USD 3 million if the sale is concluded during the 5th year of the
               Charter (however, excluding the Six-Month Sales Period).

          Any  excess  thereof  shall  belong  to the  Owners.  All of the above
          amounts shall be payable  immediately upon the delivery of the Vessels
          to the new owners, and, simultaneously therewith, this Charter will be
          terminated.

          Further,  at any time after three (3) years from the  commencement  of
          the Charter Period,  the Vessel,  subject to the Charterers'  approval
          (which shall not be unreasonably withheld),  may be sold by the Owners
          with this Charter maintained by the new owners. In such cases of sale,
          the following paragraph shall be applicable:

          If the Net Sales Proceeds is lower than the Outstanding  Project Cost,
          the Sellers'  Credit will be payable to the  Charterers  in respect of
          that  Vessel in full.  If the Net Sales  Proceeds  are higher than the
          Outstanding  Project  Cost,  the Owners  will pay the  Charterers  the
          Sellers'  Credit in respect  of that  Vessel in full,  and,  as to any
          surplus,  the first USD two (2)  million  shall  belong to Top Tankers
          Inc. (each of such Sellers'  Credit and such first USD two (2) million
          to be  payable at the time of the sale of the Vessel )o and any excess
          thereof shall belong to the Owner.

     (g)  Sales  Mechanism:  Whether the Vessel is sold during,  after or before
          the Six-Month Sales Period, as to the Vessel, the Owners will give the
          Charterers the right of first refusal.

          Subject to the  Charterers'  right of first  refusal  specified  above
          (i.e.,  such  right of first  refusal  shall be deemed  waived  when a
          waiver by the  Charterers is obtained or when the  Charterers  fail to
          exercise  such  right  after  a prior  notice  of one (1 ) week by the
          Owners), the Owners shall have no obligation to give the Charterers an
          opportunity to bid when it plans to sell the Vessels. The Owners shall
          have an absolute and free  discretion  in  selecting  the buyer of the
          Vessel and in  determining  the mechanisms for the sale of the Vessel.
          The  Vessel  and the  other  vessels  owned  by the  Other  Charterers
          (collectively,  "Vessels")  may be  sold at one  time or at  different
          times through separate sales transactions and varying mechanisms.

     (h)  Extension of Charter  Period:  For the  effective  sale of the Vessels
          after the  Charter  P(Tiod,  the  Charter  Period may be extended by a
          period  of not  longer  than  three (3)  months  at the  option of the
          Owners,  in which case the hire shall be USD 5.000 per day during such
          extended  three (3) month Charter  Period.

          Further,  the Owners shall have the right to require the  Charteres to
          manage the Vessel for a period of up to one (1) year after  expiration
          of the  Charter  Period  pursuant  to the  ship  management  agreement
          between.  the Owner and the Charterer (or any other company  nominated
          by the Charterer), providing that (i) as 10 the costs incurred for the
          technical  management of the Vessel shall be borne by the Owners on an
          net cost  amount  basis:  and (ii) as to the  income  from  commercial
          operation of the Vessel shall be distributed  between.  the Charterers
          and the Owners on a 40% to 60% basis.

          The  Charterers  shall make their best efforts to assist the Owners in
          the sale of the Vessels.

     (i)  Time Charter Assignment:  As to the time-charter or sub-charter by the
          Charterers of the Vessel during the Charter Period,  such time-charter
          or sub-charter shall be assigned to the Owners and the Agent and other
          relevant parties under the main financing and investment documentation
          for security.

     (j)  Compliance with the Financial Instrument:  The Charterers shall comply
          with the  Financial  Instrument  as required by the Agent  (including,
          without limitation. its requirement to maintain a minimum consolidated
          cash balance of USD 50 million at all times with the Agent).

33.  Compliance with the Owners' requests

     The  Charterers  shall,  throughout  the  Charter  Period_  comply with the
     Owners'  requests  which  may be made  from  time to time  for the  Owners'
     compliance with the provisions of the loan and guarantee facility agreement
     entered into on. or to be entered into  around,  the even date  herewith by
     and among,  inter alios,  the Buyers as borrower,  Fortis Bank  (Nederland)
     N.V. as agent and  arranger  and the lenders  specified  therein (the "Loan
     Agreement").

34.  Hell & High Water Clause

     This   Charter  is  a  "hell  and  high  water"   bareboat   charter   and,
     notwithstanding   anything  in  this  Charter  to  the  contrary  (however,
     excluding  clause 28(c) of this Charter),  the  Charterer's  obligation for
     payments  hereunder shall be absolute and  unconditional  under any and all
     circumstances  and  shall  not  be  affected  by any  circumstances  of any
     character (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any loss of the Vessel as
     provided in clause 28(c) of this Charter or any other  termination  of this
     Charter  pursuant to clause  28(b) of this  Charter or for any other reason
     whatsoever  (other  than  clause  23(a)  and (d) of this  Charter)  whether
     provided for in this Charter or available to the  Charterer by operation of
     law or  otherwise).  If for any reason  whatsoever  this  Charter  shall be
     terminated in whole or in part for any of the reasons specifically provided
     herein or by  operation  of law or  otherwise,  the  Charterer  nonetheless
     agrees  to pay to the Owner or to the  person  entitled  thereto  an amount
     equal to each  payment of hire at the time such  payment  would have become
     clue and payable in  accordance  with the terms hereof had this Charter not
     been  terminated  in whole or in part:  Each  payment  of hire  made by the
     Charterer shall be final, and the Charterer will not seek to recover all or
     any part of such payment from the Owner for any reason  whatsoever,  except
     for manifest error.Exhibit 4.22

Private & Confidential

                              Dated 15 March 2006

                        KOMARF HOPE 30 SHIPPING COMPANY

                                  as Owner                  (1)

                             VITSI SHIPPING CO. LTD.
                                as Charterer                (2)

                                TOP TANKERS INC.
                            as Charter Guarantor            (3)

                                       and

                        FORTIS BANK (NEDERLAND) N.V.        (4)

                       QUADRIPARTITE DEED relating to m.v.
                                   "Stopless"

                                                             NORTON ROSE
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                                    Contents

Clause                                                                  Page

1       Definitions ......................................................2

2       Representations and warranties....................................9

3       Assignment.......................................................12

4       Owner's Assignment...............................................13

5       Continuing security and other matters............................14

6       Charterer's undertakings.........................................16

7       General Undertakings.............................................18

8       Covenants concerning insurance and operational matters ..........18

9       Powers of Mortgagee to protect security and remedy defaults .....30

10      Powers of Mortgagee on Event of Default..........................30

11      Application of moneys............................................31

12      Remedies cumulative and other provisions.........................32

13      Costs and indemnity..............................................32

14      Attorney.........................................................33

15      Further assurance................................................33

16      Sale of Ship.....................................................33

17      Continuation of Charter Period...................................35

18      Notices..........................................................35

19      Counterparts.....................................................36

20      Severability of provisions.......................................36

21       Law and jurisdiction ...........................................36

Schedule 1 Forms of Loss Payable Clauses.................................38

Schedule 2 Forms of Notices of Assignment of Insurances..................39
<PAGE>

THIS QUADRIPARTITE DEED is dated 15 March 2006

BETWEEN:

(1)     KOMARF HOPE 30 SHIPPING COMPANY a company incorporated under the laws of
        the Republic of Liberia whose  registered  office is at 80 Broad Street,
        Monrovia, Republic of Liberia (the "Owner");

(2)     VITSI  SHIPPING  CO.  LTD.,  a company  incorporated  in the Republic of
        Liberia  whose  registered  office  is at  80  Broad  Street,  Monrovia,
        Republic of Liberia (the "Charterer");

(3)     TOP TANKERS INC., a company  incorporated in the Marshall  Islands whose
        registered office is at Trust Company Complex,  Ajeltake Road,  Ajeltake
        Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960 (the "Charter Guarantor"); and

(4)     FORTIS BANK (NEDERLAND) N.V., a company  incorporated  under the laws of
        The Netherlands  acting for the purposes of this Deed through its office
        at Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands (the "Mortgagee").

WHEREAS:

(A)     the Owner is the sole,  absolute and unencumbered,  legal and beneficial
        owner of sixty-four  sixty-fourth shares in the Ship described in clause
        1.2;

(B)     by a loan and  guarantee  facility  agreement  (the "Loan and  Guarantee
        Facility  Agreement")  dated 9 March 2006 and made between (1) the Owner
        (therein  referred to as the  "Borrower"),  (2) the banks and  financial
        institutions  whose  names are set out at  Schedule 1 thereto as lenders
        (the  "Banks"),  (3) the Mortgagee as agent,  security agent and trustee
        (the "Agent"),  (4) Fortis Bank  (Nederland) N.V. as guarantee bank (the
        "Guarantee  Bank "), (5) Fortis Bank  (Nederland)  N.V. as arranger (the
        "Arranger)  and (6) Fortis Bank  (Nederland)  N.V. as swap provider (the
        "Swap  Provider"  and  together  with the Agent,  the  Arranger  and the
        Account Bank (as defined in the Loan and Guarantee Facility  Agreement),
        the Guarantee  Bank and the Banks,  the  "Creditors"),  the Banks agreed
        (inter alia) to advance by way of loan to the Owner,  upon the terms and
        conditions  therein,  a maximum  aggregate  amount of up to thirty three
        million and six hundred thousand Dollars ($33,600,000) and the Guarantee
        Bank agreed to issue and/or  maintain the  Guarantee  (as defined in the
        Loan and Guarantee Facility Agreement (the "Guarantee") in favour of the
        Beneficiary (as defined in the Loan and Guarantee Facility Agreement);

(C)     by a 1992 ISDA Master  Agreement  dated 9 March 2006 (the  "Master  Swap
        Agreement")  made between (1) the Owner and (2) the Swap  Provider,  the
        Swap Provider  agreed the terms and conditions upon which it would enter
        into (inter  alia)  interest  rate swap  transactions  with the Owner in
        respect of the Loan (whether in whole or in part as the case may be from
        time to time);

(D)     pursuant to clause 16.1 of the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement,
        each of the Creditors has appointed the Mortgagee as its agent, security
        agent and  trustee  and  pursuant to a deed of trust dated 9 March 2006
        executed by the Mortgagee (as trustee) in favour of the  Creditors,  the
        Mortgagee agreed to hold, receive,  administer and enforce this Deed for
        and on behalf of itself and the Creditors;

(E)     pursuant to the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement  and the Master
        Swap Agreement there has been or will be executed by the Owner in favour
        of the Mortgagee (as security agent and trustee for and on behalf of the
        Creditors) a first preferred ship mortgage (the  "Mortgage") on the Ship
        and the Mortgage of even date  herewith  has been or will be  registered
        under the  provisions  of Chapter 3 of title 21 of the Liberian  Code of
        Laws of 1956 as amended as security  for the payment by the Owner of the
        Outstanding  Indebtedness  (as  those  expressions  are  defined  in the
        Mortgage);

(F)     by a "Barecon 2001" bareboat  charter (the "Charter") dated 9 March 2006
        made  between the Owner and the  Charterer,  the Owner has agreed to let
        and the  Charterer  has agreed to take the Ship on demise  charter for a
        period of sixty (60) months from the date of delivery of the Ship to the
        Charterer thereunder upon the terms and conditions therein mentioned;

(G)     as security for the obligations of the Charterer under the Charter,  the
        Charter  Guarantor  has or, as the case may be, will execute a guarantee
        in favour of the Owner (the "Charter Guarantee");

(H)     the Loan and Guarantee  Facility Agreement provided (inter alia) that as
        a  condition  precedent  to the  advance  of the  Loan  the  Owner,  the
        Charterer   and  the  Charter   Guarantor   should  enter  into  a  deed
        supplemental to the Mortgage  substantially in the form of this Deed, to
        secure  (inter  alia) all sums of money  from time to time  owing to the
        Mortgagee  and/or the Creditors  under the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility
        Agreement,  the Master Swap Agreement and the other Security  Documents;
        and

(I)     this Deed is supplemental to the Loan and Guarantee  Facility  Agreement
        and  the  Mortgage  and  to  the  security  thereby  created  and is the
        Quadripartite  Deed  referred  to in the  Loan  and  Guarantee  Facility
        Agreement  but shall  nonetheless  continue  in full  force  and  effect
        notwithstanding any discharge of the Mortgage.

NOW THIS DEED WITNESSES AND IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

1       Definitions

1.1     Definitions

        In this Deed, unless the context otherwise requires:

        "Approved  Brokers" means such firm of insurance  brokers,  appointed by
        the  Charterer  during the Charter  Period,  as may from time to time be
        approved in writing by the Mortgagee for the purposes of this Deed;

        "Casualty Amount" means five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) (or the
        equivalent in any other currency);

        "Charter"  means the "Barecon  2001" demise  charter  entered or (as the
        context may require) to be entered  into by the Owner and the  Charterer
        referred to in recital (F);

        "Charterer"  includes the successors in title and permitted assignees of
        the  Charterer;   "Charterer's  Assigned  Property"  means  all  of  the
        Charterer's  rights,  title and interest in and to:

        (a)     the Insurances; and

        (b)     any Requisition Compensation;

        "Charter Earnings" means all moneys whatsoever from time to time payable
        by the  Charterer  to the Owner under or pursuant to the Charter  and/or
        any  moneys  payable  to the  Owner  under or  pursuant  to the  Charter
        Guarantee and/or any guarantee, security or other assurance given to the
        Owner at any time in respect  of the  Charterer's  obligations  under or
        pursuant to the Charter;

        "Charter  Guarantee" means the guarantee executed or (as the context may
        require) to be executed by the Charter  Guarantor in favour of the Owner
        pursuant to the Charterer;

        "Charter  Guarantor"  includes  the  successors  in title and  permitted
        assignees of the Charter Guarantor;

        "Charter  Guarantor's Account" means the interest bearing Dollar account
        of the Charter  Guarantor  opened or (as the context may  require) to be
        opened with the Mortgagee  (acting as Account Bank) with account  number
        024075615017407192  and includes any sub-accounts  thereof and any other
        account  designated  in  writing  by the  Mortgagee  to be  the  Charter
        Guarantor's Account for the purposes of this Deed;

        "Charter  Period"  means such part of the period of the Charter as falls
        within  the  Security   Period  or,  in  the  event  of   expiration  or
        determination  of the period of the Charter  prior to the  expiration of
        the Security Period,  the period down to the expiration or determination
        of the period of the Charter;

        "Charter  Rights" means all of the rights of the Owner under or pursuant
        to the Charter, the Charter Guarantee and any other guarantee,  security
        or other  assurance  given to the  Owner at any time in  respect  of the
        Charterer's  obligations  under or  pursuant  to the  Charter  including
        (without limitation) the right to receive the Charter Earnings;

        "Classification"  means the  classification  +1 Al tanker for oil ESP E0
        PP3 with the Classification  Society or such other classification as the
        Agent shall,  at the request of the Owner,  have agreed in writing shall
        be  treated  as the  Classification  in  relation  to the  Ship  for the
        purposes of the Security Documents;

        "Classification   Society"  means  Det  Norske  Veritas  or  such  other
        classification  society  which the Agent  shall,  at the  request of the
        Owner,  have  agreed in writing  shall be treated as the  Classification
        Society  in  relation  to the  Ship  for the  purposes  of the  Security
        Documents;

        "Collateral Instruments" means notes, bills of exchange, certificates of
        deposit and other negotiable and non-negotiable instruments, guarantees,
        indemnities and other  assurances  against  financial loss and any other
        documents or instruments  which contain or evidence an obligation  (with
        or without  security) to pay,  discharge or be  responsible  directly or
        indirectly  for, any  indebtedness  or  liabilities  of the Owner or any
        other person liable and includes any documents or  instruments  creating
        or evidencing a mortgage,  charge  (whether fixed or floating),  pledge,
        lien, hypothecation,  assignment, trust arrangement or security interest
        of any kind;

        "Commercial  Management  Agreement"  means the agreement made or (as the
        context may require) to be made between the Charterer and the Commercial
        Manager in a form previously  approved in writing by the Agent providing
        (inter alia) for the Commercial Manager to commercially manage the Ship;

        "Commercial  Manager means Top Tanker  Management  Inc. of Trust Company
        Complex,  Ajeltake Road,  Ajeltake Island,  Majuro,  Marshall Islands MN
        96960 or any other  person  appointed  by the  Charterer  with the prior
        written  consent  of the  Agent as  commercial  manager  of the Ship and
        includes its successors in title;

        "Compulsory Acquisition" means requisition for title or other compulsory
        acquisition,  requisition,  appropriation,  expropriation,  deprivation,
        forfeiture or confiscation  for any reason of the Ship by any Government
        Entity or other competent  authority,  whether de jure or de facto,  but
        shall exclude  requisition for use or hire not involving  requisition of
        title;

        "Default" means any Event of Default or any event or circumstance  which
        with the  giving of notice or lapse of time or the  satisfaction  of any
        other condition (or any combination  thereof) would  constitute an Event
        of Default;

        "Delivery"  means  the  delivery  of the  Ship  by the  Owner,  and  the
        acceptance of the Ship by the Charterer, pursuant to the Charter;

        "Delivery Date" means the date on which Delivery occurs;

        "DOC" means a document of compliance issued to an Operator in accordance
        with rule 13 of the Code;

        "Encumbrance"  means any mortgage,  charge  (whether fixed or floating),
        pledge, lien, hypothecation,  assignment,  trust arrangement or security
        interest or other encumbrance of any kind securing any obligation of any
        person  or any  type  of  preferential  arrangement  (including  without
        limitation title transfer and/or retention arrangements having a similar
        effect);

        "Environmental  Affiliate"  means any agent or employee of the Charterer
        or  any  other  Relevant  Party  or  any  person  having  a  contractual
        relationship   with  the  Charterer  or  any  other  Relevant  Party  in
        connection  with any Relevant  Ship or its  operation or the carriage of
        cargo and/or  passengers  thereon  and/or the  provision of goods and/or
        services on or from the Relevant Ship;

        "Environmental  Approval" means any consent,  authorisation,  licence or
        approval of any  governmental  or public body or  authorities  or courts
        applicable  to any  Relevant  Ship or its  operation  or the carriage of
        cargo and/or  passengers  thereon  and/or the  provision of goods and/or
        services on or from such Relevant Ship required under any  Environmental
        Law;

        "Environmental Claim" means any and all enforcement,  clean-up,  removal
        or other  governmental  or  regulatory  actions or orders  instituted or
        completed  pursuant  to  any  Environmental  Law  or  any  Environmental
        Approval  together  with  claims  made by any third  party  relating  to
        damage,  contribution,  loss or  injury,  resulting  from any  actual or
        threatened emission, spill, release or discharge of a Pollutant from any
        Relevant Ship;

        "Environmental  Laws" means all national,  international and state laws,
        rules, regulations,  treaties and conventions applicable to any Relevant
        Ship  pertaining  to the  pollution or protection of human health or the
        environment  including,  without limitation,  the carriage of Pollutants
        and actual or threatened  emissions,  spills,  releases or discharges of
        Pollutants;

        "Event of Default" means any of the events or circumstances described in
        clause 10.1 of the Loan and Guarantee Facility Agreement;

        "Expenses"  means the aggregate at any relevant time (to the extent that
        the same have not been received or recovered by the Mortgagee) of:

        (a)     all losses,  liabilities,  costs, charges, expenses, damages and
                outgoings of whatever  nature  (including,  without  limitation,
                Taxes,  registration  fees  and  insurance  premiums)  suffered,
                incurred  or  paid  by the  Mortgagee  in  connection  with  the
                exercise of the powers referred to in or granted by this Deed or
                otherwise payable by the Owner in accordance with clause 13; and

        (b)     interest  on  all  such  losses,  liabilities,  costs,  charges,
                expenses,  damages and outgoings from the date on which the same
                were suffered,  incurred or paid by the Mortgagee until the date
                of  receipt  or  recovery   thereof  (whether  before  or  after
                judgment)  at a rate per annum  calculated  in  accordance  with
                clause  3.4 of the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement  (as
                conclusively certified by the Mortgagee);

        "Flag  State"  means the  Republic  of Liberia  or such  other  state or
        territory  acceptable  to the Agent  designated  in writing by the Agent
        (acting on the  instructions of the Majority  Banks),  at the request of
        the Owner, as being the "Flag State" of the Ship for the purposes of the
        Security Documents;

        "Guarantee" means the guarantee described in recital (B) above;

        "Guarantee  Amount" means any amount owing by the Guarantee  Bank to the
        Beneficiary  under  or  pursuant  to  the  Guarantee,  which  amount  is
        indemnified  by the  Owner in  accordance  with  the Loan and  Guarantee
        Facility Agreement;

        "Government  Entity" means and includes (whether having a distinct legal
        personality or not) any national or local government  authority,  board,
        commission,  department,  division,  organ,  instrumentality,  court  or
        agency and any association,  organisation or institution of which any of
        the foregoing is a member or to whose  jurisdiction any of the foregoing
        is subject or in whose activities any of the foregoing is a participant;

        "Incapacity"  means,  in  relation to a person,  the death,  bankruptcy,
        unsoundness of mind, insolvency, liquidation,  dissolution,  winding-up,
        administration,  receivership,  amalgamation,  reconstruction  or  other
        incapacity of that person whatsoever (and, in the case of a partnership,
        includes  the   termination   or  change  in  the   composition  of  the
        partnership);

        "Insurances"  means all  policies  and  contracts  of  insurance  (which
        expression  includes  all  entries  of  the  Ship  in a  protection  and
        indemnity or war risks  association)  which are from time to time during
        the Security  Period in place or taken out or entered into by or for the
        benefit of, among others, the Owner and/or the Charterer (whether in the
        sole  name  of the  Owner,  or in the  joint  names  of the  Owner,  the
        Charterer  and the  Mortgagee or  otherwise) in respect of the Ship (but
        not loss of earnings) or otherwise howsoever in connection with the Ship
        and all benefits  thereof  (including  claims of  whatsoever  nature and
        return of premiums);

        "ISM  Code"  means  the  International  Management  Code  for  the  Safe
        Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention  constituted pursuant to
        Resolution A. 741 (18) of the  International  Maritime  Organisation and
        incorporated into the International  Convention on Safety of Life at Sea
        1974 (as amended) and includes any amendment or  extensions  thereto and
        any regulation issued pursuant thereto;

        "ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code
        constituted  pursuant  to  resolution  A.924(22)  of  the  International
        Maritime  Organization now set out in Chapter XI-2 of the  International
        Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 (as amended) as adopted by
        a Diplomatic  Conference of the International  Maritime  Organisation on
        Maritime  Security in  December  2002 and  includes  any  amendments  or
        extensions thereto and any regulation issued pursuant thereto;

        "ISSC"  means an  International  Ship  Security  Certificate  issued  in
        respect of the Ship pursuant to the ISPC Code;

        "Loan" means the aggregate principal amount owing to the Banks or any of
        them  pursuant  to the  Loan and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement  at any
        relevant time;

        "Loan and Guarantee Facility  Agreement" means the agreement referred to
        in recital (B) hereto as the same may from time to time be  supplemented
        and/or amended;

        "Loss Payable  Clauses"  means the  provisions  regulating the manner of
        payment  of  sums  receivable  under  the  Insurances  which  are  to be
        incorporated  in the  relevant  insurance  documents,  such Loss Payable
        Clauses  to be in the forms set out in  Schedule  1 during  the  Charter
        Period (which  shall,  during the Charter  Period,  replace the forms of
        Loss Payable  Clauses  specified in the General  Assignment)  or in such
        other forms as may from time to time be required or agreed in writing by
        the Mortgagee;

        "Management  Agreements" means the Commercial  Management  Agreement and
        the Technical  Management  Agreement and  "Management  Agreement"  means
        either of them;

        "Managers"  means the Commercial  Manager and the Technical  Manager and
        "Manager means either of them;

        "Master  Swap  Agreement"  means the 1992  ISDA  Master  Agreement  made
        between the Swap  Provider and the Owner dated9 March 2006  mentioned in
        recital  (C) hereto,  comprising  a 1992 ISDA  Master  Agreement  (and a
        Schedule thereto),  together with any Confirmations (as defined therein)
        supplemental thereto;

        "Master Swap  Agreement  Liabilities"  means at any relevant  time,  all
        liabilities actual or contingent,  present or future,  owing to the Swap
        Provider under the Master Swap Agreement;

        "Mortgage" means the first preferred  mortgage  mentioned in recital (E)
        hereto;  "Mortgagee"  includes the  successors in title and assignees of
        the Mortgagee;

        "Notice of Assignment of Insurances" means a notice of assignment in the
        form set out in  Schedule  2 during the  Charter  Period  (which  shall,
        during the Charter  Period,  replace the form of Notice of Assignment of
        Insurances specified in the General  Assignment),  or in such other form
        as may  from  time to time be  required  or  agreed  in  writing  by the
        Mortgagee;

        "Operating  Account"  means the interest  bearing  Dollar account of the
        Owner  opened or (as the  context  may  require)  to be opened  with the
        Account Bank and includes any sub-accounts thereof and any other account
        designated in writing by the Agent to be the  Operating  Account for the
        purposes of this Agreement;

        "Operator" means any person who is from time to time during the Security
        Period  concerned  in the  operation  of the Ship and falls  within  the
        definition of "Company" set out in rule 1.1.2 of the Code;

        "Outstanding  Indebtedness"  means  the  aggregate  of the  Loan and the
        Guarantee  Amount the Master Swap  Agreement  Liabilities,  and interest
        accrued and accruing  thereon,  the Expenses and all other sums of money
        from time to time owing by the Owner to the Mortgagee  and/or any of the
        other Creditors,  whether  actually or contingently,  present or future,
        under or  pursuant to the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement,  the
        Master Swap Agreement, the Security Documents or any of them;

        "Owner" includes the successors in title and permitted  assignees of the
        Owner; "Owner's Assigned Property" means:

        (a)     the Charter;

        (b)     the Charter Guarantee;

        (c)     the Charter Earnings; and

        (d)     all other Charter Rights;

        "Pollutant"   means  and  includes   pollutants,   contaminants,   toxic
        substances,  oil as defined in the United  States Oil  Pollution  Act of
        1990 and all  hazardous  substances  as  defined  in the  United  States
        Comprehensive  Environmental  Response,  Compensation  and Liability Act
        1980;

        "Related  Company" of a person means any Subsidiary of such person,  any
        company or other  entity of which such  person is a  Subsidiary  and any
        Subsidiary of any such company or entity;

        "Relevant  Jurisdiction"  means any  jurisdiction  in which or where any
        Security Party is  incorporated,  resident,  domiciled,  has a permanent
        establishment,  carries on, or has a place of  business or is  otherwise
        effectively connected;

        "Relevant  Party" means the Owner,  the Owner's Related  Companies,  any
        other Security Party and any other Security Party's Related Companies;

        "Relevant  Ship"  means the Ship and any other  vessel from time to time
        (whether before or after the date of this Deed) owned, managed or crewed
        by, or chartered to, any Relevant Party;

        "Requisition Compensation" means all sums of money or other compensation
        from time to time payable  during the  Security  Period by reason of the
        Compulsory Acquisition of the Ship;

        "Security  Documents" means the Loan and Guarantee  Facility  Agreement,
        this Deed,  the  Mortgage,  the  General  Assignment,  the  Master  Swap
        Agreement,  the Share Pledge,  the Charter  Guarantee and any other such
        document as is defined in the Loan and Guarantee Facility Agreement as a
        Security  Document or as may have been or may  hereafter  be executed to
        guarantee  and/or  secure  all or any part of the  Loan,  the  Guarantee
        Amount, any interest thereon,  and the moneys from time to time owing by
        the Owner pursuant to the Loan and Guarantee  Facility  Agreement and/or
        the Master Swap Agreement  Liabilities  (whether or not such  documents,
        also  secure  moneys  from  time to time  owing  pursuant  to any  other
        document or agreement);

        "Security  Parties" means,  collectively,  the Owner, the Managers,  the
        Charterer,  or any other person who may at any time be a party to any of
        the  Security  Documents  (other  than  the  Creditors  and the  Charter
        Guarantor) and "Security Party" means any one of them;

        "Security  Period"  means the period  commencing  on the date hereof and
        terminating  upon  discharge  of the  security  created by the  Security
        Documents by payment of all moneys payable thereunder;

        "Shareholder" means Dongbuka No. 30 Ship Investment Company of Mora-dong
        795-22 ,Sasang-gu,Pusan , Republic of Korea;

        "Share  Pledge" means the pledge made or (as the context may require) to
        be made between the  Shareholder  and the Agent (as  security  agent and
        trustee on behalf of the Creditors) in substantially the form set out in
        Schedule 17, of its rights,  title and interest in and to all the shares
        in the Owner;

        "Ship" means the vessel m.v.  "Stopless"  registered  as a Liberian ship
        under Official  Number 12600 and includes any share or interest  therein
        and her engines,  machinery,  boats, tackle,  outfit,  equipment,  spare
        gear,  fuel,  consumable or other stores,  belongings and  appurtenances
        whether on board or ashore and whether now owned or  hereafter  acquired
        and also any and all additions,  improvements and replacements hereafter
        made in or to such vessel or any part thereof or in or to her  equipment
        and appurtenances aforesaid; and

        "SMC" means a safety management  certificate issued in respect of a Ship
        in accordance with rule 13 of the ISM Code;

        "Subsidiary"  of a person  means  any  company  or  entity  directly  or
        indirectly  controlled  by such person,  and for this purpose  "control"
        means either the  ownership of more than 50% of the voting share capital
        (or  equivalent  rights of  ownership)  of such company or entity or the
        power to direct its  policies  and  management,  whether by  contract or
        otherwise;

        "Technical Manager's Undertaking" means an undertaking and assignment in
        relation to the Ship  executed  or (as the  context  may  require) to be
        executed by the  Technical  Manager in favour of the Agent (as  security
        agent and trustee on behalf of the Creditors);

        "Technical  Manager"  means V. Ships  Management  Limited of Eaglehurst,
        Belmont  Hill,  Douglas,  Isle  of  Man,  IM1  4NY or any  other  person
        appointed by the  Commercial  Manager with the prior written  consent of
        the Agent as technical  manager of the Ship and includes its  successors
        in title and assignees;

        "Total Loss" means:

        (a)     the actual, constructive,  compromised or arranged total loss of
                the Ship; or

        (b)     the Compulsory Acquisition of the Ship; or

        (c)     the hijacking,  theft,  condemnation,  capture, seizure, arrest,
                detention or confiscation of the Ship (other than where the same
                amounts  to  the  Compulsory  Acquisition  of the  Ship)  by any
                Government  Entity, or by persons acting or purporting to act on
                behalf of any Government Entity, unless the Ship be released and
                restored  to the  Owner  or  (during  the  Charter  Period)  the
                Charterer  (as the  case  may be) from  such  hijacking,  theft,
                condemnation,    capture,    seizure,   arrest,   detention   or
                confiscation  within  thirty  (30)  days  after  the  occurrence
                thereof.

1.2     Insurance terms In clause 8.1.1:

        1.2.1   "excess  risks"  means the  proportion  (if any) of  claims  for
                general  average,  salvage  and  salvage  charges  and under the
                ordinary  collision clause not recoverable in consequence of the
                value at which  the Ship is  assessed  for the  purpose  of such
                claims exceeding her insured value;

        1.2.2   "protection   and   indemnity   risks"  means  the  usual  risks
                (including  oil  pollution  and freight,  demurrage  and defence
                cover)  covered by a United  Kingdom  protection  and  indemnity
                association or a protection and indemnity  association  which is
                managed in London (including, without limitation, the proportion
                (if any) of any sums  payable to any other  person or persons in
                case of collision which are not  recoverable  under the hull and
                machinery  policies  by  reasons  of the  incorporation  in such
                policies  of  clause 8 of the  Institute  Time  Clauses  (Hulls)
                (1/11/95) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71)
                or any equivalent provision); and

        1.2.3   "war risks" includes those risks covered by the standard form of
                English  marine policy with  Institute  War and Strikes  Clauses
                Hulls - Time (1/11/95) attached or similar cover.

1.3     Headings

        Clause  headings and the table of contents are inserted for  convenience
        of  reference  only and shall be ignored in the  interpretation  of this
        Deed.

1.4     Construction of certain terms

        In this Deed, unless the context otherwise requires:

        1.4.1   references  to clauses  and  Schedules  are to be  construed  as
                references  to  clauses  of,  and  Schedules  to,  this Deed and
                references to this Deed include its Schedules;

        1.4.2   references  to (or to any  specified  provision of) this Deed or
                any other  document  shall be  construed as  references  to this
                Deed,  that  provision or that document as in force for the time
                being and as amended in accordance  with the terms thereof,  or,
                as the case may be, with the agreement of the relevant parties;

        1.4.3   words  importing  the plural shall include the singular and vice
                versa;

        1.4.4   references  to a person shall be construed as  references  to an
                individual, firm, company,  corporation,  unincorporated body of
                persons or any Government Entity;

        1.4.5   references  to a  "guarantee"  shall  include  references  to an
                indemnity or other assurance  against  financial loss including,
                without limitation, an obligation to purchase assets or services
                as a  consequence  of a default  by any other  person to pay any
                Indebtedness  and "guaranteed"  shall be construed  accordingly;
                and

        1.4.6   references  to  statutory   provisions  shall  be  construed  as
                references  to  those  provisions  as  replaced  or  amended  or
                re-enacted from time to time.

1.5     Conflict with Loan and Guarantee Facility Agreement

        As between the Owner and the Mortgagee, this Deed shall be read together
        with  the  Loan  and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement  but in case of any
        conflict  between the two  instruments,  the  provisions of the Loan and
        Guarantee Facility Agreement shall prevail.

1.6     Conflict with Charter

        If and to the extent that any of the covenants and undertakings given by
        the  Charterer in this Deed may conflict  with any of the  provisions of
        the  Charter,  such  covenants  and  undertakings  shall (as between the
        Mortgagee  on the one hand and the Owner and the  Charterer on the other
        hand but not otherwise) prevail over such provisions.

2       Representations and warranties

2.1     Charterer's Continuing representations and warranties

        The  Charterer  represents  and warrants to the  Mortgagee  (as security
        agent and  trustee  for and on behalf  of the  Creditors)  and the Owner
        that:

        2.1.1   Due incorporation

                it is duly  incorporated  and validly  existing in good standing
                under the laws of the Republic of Liberia as a  corporation  and
                has power to carry on its business as it is now being  conducted
                and to own its property and other assets;

        2.1.2   Corporate power

                it has power to execute,  deliver  and  perform its  obligations
                under the Charter and such of the Security Documents to which it
                is, or is to be, a party and has power to  execute  and  deliver
                and perform its obligations  under the Charter Guarantee and the
                Security Documents, and all necessary corporate, shareholder and
                other action has been taken to authorise the execution, delivery
                and performance of the same;

        2.1.3   Binding obligations

                the Charter and the Security  Documents to which it is, or is to
                be, a party  constitute or will,  when executed,  constitute its
                valid and legally binding obligations  enforceable in accordance
                with their respective terms;

        2.1.4   No conflict with other obligations

                the   execution  and  delivery  of,  the   performance   of  its
                obligations  under,  and  compliance  with the provisions of the
                Charter and the Security  Documents to which it is, or is to be,
                a party by it will not (a) contravene,  any existing  applicable
                law,  statute,  rule or regulation  or any  judgment,  decree or
                permit to which it is  subject,  or (b)  contravene  or conflict
                with any  provision of its articles of  incorporation,  by-laws,
                statutes or other constitutional documents;

        2.1.5   No filings required

                it  is  not   necessary  to  ensure  the   legality,   validity,
                enforceability  or  admissibility  in evidence of the Charter or
                any of the  Security  Documents  to which it is,  or is to be, a
                party that they or any other  instrument  be  notarised,  filed,
                recorded,  registered or enrolled in any court, public office or
                elsewhere  in any  Relevant  Jurisdiction  or  that  any  stamp,
                registration  or similar  tax or charge be paid in any  Relevant
                Jurisdiction  on or in  relation  to the  Charter or any of such
                Security  Documents  and the Charter  and each of such  Security
                Documents are in proper form for its  enforcement  in the courts
                of each Relevant Jurisdiction;

        2.1.6   Choice of law

                the choice of English law to govern the Charter and the Security
                Documents  to  which  it  is,  or is to  be,  a  party  and  the
                submission by the Charterer to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
                the English courts are valid and binding;

        2.1.7   No immunity

                neither it nor any of its assets is  entitled to immunity on the
                grounds of  sovereignty  or  otherwise  from any legal action or
                proceeding  (which  shall  include,  without  limitation,  suit,
                attachment prior to judgment,  execution or other  enforcement);
                and

        2.1.8   Consents obtained

                every  consent,  authorisation,   licence  or  approval  of,  or
                registration  with or  declaration  to,  governmental  or public
                bodies or authorities or courts required by it to authorise,  or
                required by it in  connection  with,  the  execution,  delivery,
                validity,  enforceability  or  admissibility  in evidence of the
                Charter and the Security  Documents to which it is, or is to be,
                a party or the  performance by it of its  obligations  under the
                Charter and such Security  Documents  have been obtained or made
                and are in full  force and  effect and there has been no default
                in the observance of any of the conditions or  restrictions  (if
                any) imposed in, or in connection with, any of the same.

2.2     Charter Guarantor's Continuing representations and warranties

        The Charter  Guarantor  represents  and  warrants to the  Mortgagee  (as
        security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the  Creditors) and the
        Owner that:

        2.2.1   Due incorporation

                it is duly  incorporated  and validly  existing in good standing
                under the laws of the Republic of Liberia as a  corporation  and
                has power to carry on its business as it is now being  conducted
                and to own its property and other assets;

        2.2.2   Corporate power

                it has power to execute,  deliver  and  perform its  obligations
                under  the  Charter  Guarantee  and this  Deed and has  power to
                execute  and  deliver  and  perform  its  obligations  under the
                Charter  Guarantee and this Deed,  and all necessary  corporate,
                shareholder  and other  action has been taken to  authorise  the
                execution,   delivery  and   performance  of  the  same  and  no
                limitation  on the  powers  of the  Charter  Guarantor  to  give
                guarantees  or  security  will be  exceeded  as a result  of the
                execution,   delivery  and   performance   of  the   Charterer's
                obligations under this Deed;

        2.2.3   Binding obligations

                the Charter  Guarantee and this Deed  constitute  or will,  when
                executed,  constitute its valid and legally binding  obligations
                enforceable in accordance with their respective terms;

        2.2.4   No conflict with other obligations

                the   execution  and  delivery  of,  the   performance   of  its
                obligations  under,  and  compliance  with the provisions of the
                Charter  Guarantee and this Deed by it will not (a)  contravene,
                any existing applicable law, statute,  rule or regulation or any
                judgment,  decree  or  permit  to  which  it is  subject  or (b)
                contravene  or conflict  with any  provision  of its articles of
                incorporation,   by-laws,   statutes  or  other   constitutional
                documents;

        2.2.5   No filings required

                it  is  not   necessary  to  ensure  the   legality,   validity,
                enforceability or admissibility in evidence of Charter Guarantee
                or this Deed that they or any  other  instrument  be  notarised,
                filed,  recorded,  registered  or enrolled in any court,  public
                office or  elsewhere in any  Relevant  Jurisdiction  or that any
                stamp,  registration  or  similar  tax or  charge be paid in any
                Relevant Jurisdiction on or in relation to the Charter Guarantee
                or this Deed and each of the Charter Guarantee and this Deed are
                in  proper  form  for  its  enforcement  in the  courts  of each
                Relevant Jurisdiction;

        2.2.6   Choice of law

                the choice of English law to govern  Charter  Guarantee and this
                Deed  and  the  submission  by  the  Charter  Guarantor  to  the
                non-exclusive  jurisdiction  of the English courts are valid and
                binding;

        2.2.7   No immunity

                neither it nor any of its assets is  entitled to immunity on the
                grounds of  sovereignty  or  otherwise  from any legal action or
                proceeding  (which  shall  include,  without  limitation,  suit,
                attachment prior to judgement,  execution or other enforcement);
                and

        2.2.8   Consents obtained

                every  consent,  authorisation,   licence  or  approval  of,  or
                registration  with or  declaration  to,  governmental  or public
                bodies or authorities or courts required by it to authorise,  or
                required by it in  connection  with,  the  execution,  delivery,
                validity,  enforceability  or  admissibility  in evidence of the
                Charter  Guarantee and this Deed or the performance by it of its
                obligations  under the Charter  Guarantee and this Deed has been
                obtained  or made and is in full  force and effect and there has
                been no default in the  observance  of any of the  conditions or
                restrictions  (if any) imposed in, or in connection with, any of
                the same.

2.3     Charterer's Initial representations and warranties

        The  Charterer  represents  and warrants to the  Mortgagee  (as security
        agent and  trustee  for and on behalf  of the  Creditors)  and the Owner
        that:

        2.3.1   No withholding Taxes

                no Taxes are imposed by  withholding or otherwise on any payment
                to be made by it under the Charter or the Security  Documents to
                which it is, or is to be, a party or are imposed on or by virtue
                of its  execution  or  delivery  of the  Charter  or any of such
                Security  Documents or any other  document or  instrument  to be
                executed or delivered  under the Charter or any of such Security
                Documents;

        2.3.2   Ship's employment

                (save  for the  Charter)  the  Ship is not and  will  not on the
                Delivery  Date be subject to any  charter or  contract or to any
                agreement to enter into any charter or contract  entered into by
                the  Charterer  which,  if entered  into by it after the date of
                this Deed, would have required the consent of the Mortgagee;

        2.3.3   Freedom from Encumbrances

                the  Charterer is the sole,  legal and  beneficial  owner of the
                whole of the  Charterer's  Assigned  Property  and  neither  the
                Charterer's  Assigned  Property nor any part thereof are or will
                be on the Delivery Date subject to any Encumbrance created by it
                or arising due to its act or omission or its use or operation of
                the Ship and it has not (save as  disclosed  in  writing  to the
                Mortgagee)  received  notice  of  any  Encumbrance  (other  than
                pursuant to this Deed) in respect  thereof  created by any other
                person;

        2.3.4   Commissions etc.

                there are no commissions, rebates, premiums or other payments in
                connection  with the  Charter  other  than as  disclosed  to the
                Mortgagee in writing prior to the date hereof;

        2.3.5   Compliance with Environmental Laws and Approvals

                except as may already  have been  disclosed by it in writing to,
                and acknowledged in writing by, the Mortgagee:

                (a)     the  Charterer  and to the  best  of its  knowledge  and
                        belief  (having  made  due  enquiry)  its  Environmental
                        Affiliates  have  complied  with the  provisions  of all
                        Environmental Laws;

                (b)     the  Charterer  and to the  best  of its  knowledge  and
                        belief  (having  made  due  enquiry)  its  Environmental
                        Affiliates have obtained all Environmental Approvals and
                        are in compliance with all such Environmental Approvals;
                        and

                (c)     neither the  Charterer  nor to the best of its knowledge
                        and  belief   (having  made  due  enquiry)  any  of  its
                        Environmental  Affiliates  has  received  notice  of any
                        Environmental  Claim  that  the  Charterer  or any  such
                        Environmental  Affiliate is not in  compliance  with any
                        Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval;

        2.3.6   No Environmental Claims

                except as may already  have been  disclosed by it in writing to,
                and  acknowledged  in  writing  by, the  Mortgagee,  there is no
                Environmental Claim pending or, to the best of its knowledge and
                belief  (having  made  due  enquiry),   threatened  against  the
                Charterer or the Ship or any other ship owned, managed or crewed
                by,  or  chartered  to,  the  Charterer  or,  to the best of its
                knowledge  and  belief  (having  made  due  enquiry)  any of its
                Environmental Affiliates; and

        2.3.7   No potential Environmental Claims

                except as may already  have been  disclosed by it in writing to,
                and acknowledged in writing by, the Mortgagee, there has been no
                emission,  spill,  release or discharge of a Pollutant  from the
                Ship or any other  ship  owned  by,  managed  or  crewed  by, or
                chartered to, the Charterer nor to the best of its knowledge and
                belief  (having made due enquiry)  from any other ship owned by,
                managed or crewed by, or chartered to, the Charterer which could
                give rise to an Environmental Claim.

2.4     Charter Guarantor's Initial representations and warranties

        The Charter  Guarantor  represents  and  warrants to the  Mortgagee  (as
        security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the  Creditors) and the
        Owner that:

2.5     No withholding Taxes

        no Taxes are imposed by  withholding  or  otherwise on any payment to be
        made by it under the Charter Guarantee or are imposed on or by virtue of
        its  execution or delivery of the Charter  Guarantee or this Deed or any
        other  document or  instrument  to be executed  or  delivered  under the
        Charter Guarantee or this Deed;

2.6     Repetition of representations and warranties

        On  and  as of  the  Delivery  Date  and  (except  in  relation  to  the
        representations  and warranties in clauses 2.3, 2.4 and 5) each Interest
        Payment Date during the Charter  Period,  the  Charterer and the Charter
        Guarantor shall be deemed to repeat the  representations  and warranties
        in clauses 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 as if made with  reference to the facts
        and circumstances existing on such day.

3       Assignment

3.1     Charterer's Assignment

        By way of security for the Outstanding Indebtedness,  the Charterer with
        full  title  guarantee  hereby  assigns  and  agrees  to  assign  to the
        Mortgagee  absolutely  all its rights,  title and interest in and to the
        Charterer's Assigned Property and all its benefits and interests present
        and future  therein.  Provided  however  that unless and until a Default
        shall occur  (whereupon all insurance  recoveries shall be receivable by
        the Mortgagee and applied in accordance  with clause 11.1 or clause 11.3
        (as the case may be)):

        3.1.1   any moneys  payable  under the  Insurances,  shall be payable in
                accordance  with the terms of the relevant  Loss Payable  Clause
                and the Mortgagee will not in the meantime give any notification
                to the  contrary  to the  insurers as  contemplated  by the Loss
                Payable Clauses; and

        3.1.2   any insurance moneys received by the Mortgagee in respect of any
                major  casualty  (as  specified  in the  relevant  Loss  Payable
                Clause) shall, unless prior to receipt or whilst such moneys are
                in the  hands of the  Mortgagee  there  shall  have  occurred  a
                Default  (whereupon  such  insurance  monies shall be applied in
                accordance  with  clause  11.1 or  clause  11.3 (as the case may
                be)),  be  paid  over  to  the  Charterer   upon  the  Charterer
                furnishing evidence  satisfactory to the Mortgagee that all loss
                and damage  resulting  from such casualty has been properly made
                good and  repaired,  and  that all  repair  accounts  and  other
                liabilities whatsoever in connection with the casualty have been
                fully paid and  discharged by the  Charterer,  provided  however
                that the  insurers  with  whom the fire and usual  marine  risks
                insurances  are effected  may, in the case of a major  casualty,
                and with the previous consent in writing of the Mortgagee,  make
                payment on account of repairs in the course of being effected.

3.2     Use of Charterer's name

        The  Charterer  covenants  and  undertakes  with the  Mortgagee to do or
        permit to be done each and every act or thing  which the  Mortgagee  may
        from time to time  require to be done for the purpose of  enforcing  the
        Mortgagee's  rights  under this Deed and to allow its name to be used as
        and when required by the Mortgagee for that purpose.

3.3     Reassignment

        Upon payment and discharge in full to the  satisfaction of the Mortgagee
        of the Outstanding Indebtedness, the Mortgagee shall, at the request and
        cost of the Charterer,  re-assign the Charterer's  Assigned  Property to
        the Charterer or as it may direct.

3.4     Liability of Charterer

        The Charterer shall remain liable to perform all the obligations assumed
        by it in relation to the Assigned  Property and the  Mortgagee  shall be
        under no  obligation  of any kind  whatsoever  in respect  thereof or be
        under  any  liability  whatsoever  in the  event of any  failure  by the
        Charterer to perform its obligations in respect thereof.

4       Owner's Assignment

4.1     By way of security  for  payment of the  Outstanding  Indebtedness,  the
        Owner with full title  guarantee  hereby assigns and agrees to assign to
        the Mortgagee (as security agent and trustee on behalf of the Creditors)
        absolutely  all its  rights,  title and  interest  in and to the Owner's
        Assigned  Property  and all  benefits  accruing to the Owner  thereunder
        Provided  however  that the  Charter  Earnings  shall be  payable to the
        Operating  Account  until  such  time as a Default  shall  occur and the
        Mortgagee  shall  direct  to the  contrary  whereupon  the  Owner  shall
        forthwith,  and the Mortgagee may at any time  thereafter,  instruct the
        persons from whom the Charter  Earnings are then payable to pay the same
        to the  Mortgagee  (as  security  agent  and  trustee  on  behalf of the
        Creditors)  or as it may direct  and any  Charter  Earnings  then in the
        hands of the  Owner's  brokers or other  agents  shall be deemed to have
        been received by them for the use and on behalf of the Agent.

4.2     Use of Owner's name

        The Owner covenants and undertakes with the Mortgagee to do or permit to
        be done each and every act or thing which the Mortgagee may from time to
        time  require to be done for the purpose of  enforcing  the  Mortgagee's
        rights  under  this  Deed and to  allow  its name to be used as and when
        required by the Mortgagee for that purpose.

4.3     Reassignment

        Upon payment and discharge in full to the  satisfaction of the Mortgagee
        of the Outstanding Indebtedness, the Mortgagee shall, at the request and
        cost of the Owner,  re-assign the Owner's Assigned Property to the Owner
        or as it may direct.

4.4     Liability of Owner

        The Owner shall remain liable to perform all the obligations  assumed by
        it in relation to the  Mortgaged  Property  and the  Mortgagee  shall be
        under no  obligation  of any kind  whatsoever  in respect  thereof or be
        under any liability  whatsoever in the event of any failure by the Owner
        to perform its obligations in respect thereof.

4.5     Acknowledgement by Charterer

        By its  execution of this Deed,  each of the  Charterer  and the Charter
        Guarantor  has  received   written  notice  of,  and  consents  to,  the
        assignment to the Mortgagee of the Charter, the Charter Earnings and the
        other Charter Rights and the Charter Guarantee.

5       Continuing security and other matters

5.1     Continuing security

        The security created by this Deed shall:

        5.1.1   be held by the Mortgagee (as security  agent and trustee for and
                on behalf of the  Creditors)  as a  continuing  security for the
                payment of the Outstanding  Indebtedness and the performance and
                observance of and compliance  with all of the  covenants,  terms
                and conditions  contained in the Security Documents,  express or
                implied, and that the security so created shall not be satisfied
                by any  intermediate  payment or satisfaction of any part of the
                amount  hereby and  thereby  secured  (or by any  settlement  of
                accounts between the Owner or any other person who may be liable
                to the  Mortgagee  and/or the other  Creditors in respect of the
                Outstanding  Indebtedness  or any part thereof and the Mortgagee
                and/or the other  Creditors)  and shall remain in full force and
                effect until the Outstanding Indebtedness has been discharged in
                full (which  expression  shall not embrace payment or a dividend
                in liquidation or bankruptcy of less than 100%);

        5.1.2   be in addition to, and shall not in any way prejudice or affect,
                and may be enforced by the Mortgagee  without prior recourse to,
                the security  created by any other of the Security  Documents or
                by any present or future Collateral Instruments, right or remedy
                held by or available to the Mortgagee and/or the other Creditors
                or any of them any right or remedy of the  Mortgagee  and/or the
                other  Creditors  or any of them or any  right or  remedy of the
                Mortgagee thereunder;

        5.1.3   not be in any way prejudiced or affected by the existence of any
                of  the  other  Security   Documents  or  any  such   Collateral
                Instrument, rights or remedies or by the same becoming wholly or
                in part void, voidable or unenforceable on any ground whatsoever
                or by the  Mortgagee  and/or the other  Creditors or any of them
                dealing  with,  exchanging,  varying  or  failing  to perfect or
                enforce  any  of  the  same,  or  giving  time  for  payment  or
                performance or indulgence or  compounding  with any other person
                liable; and

        5.1.4   not in any way be  prejudiced  or  affected by any change in the
                constitution  of, or any amalgamation or  reconstruction  of the
                Owner,  the  Mortgagee  or any  other  person  or by  any  legal
                limitation,   disability,   incapacity  or  other  circumstances
                relating to the Owner or any other person,  whether or not known
                to the Mortgagee and/or the other  Creditors,  by any invalidity
                in or irregularity or unenforceability of the obligations of the
                Owner or any other person under the Loan and Guarantee  Facility
                Agreement  or any of the other  Security  Documents or otherwise
                and so  that in the  event  that  any  obligation  or  purported
                obligation  of  the  Owner  or  any  other  person   which,   if
                enforceable  or valid or  continuing,  would be  secured by this
                Deed is or becomes wholly or in part unenforceable or invalid or
                terminated  for any reason  whatsoever,  the Owner will keep the
                Mortgagee and the other Creditors fully indemnified  against any
                loss  suffered by the  Mortgagee  and the other  Creditors  as a
                result  of any  failure  by the  Owner  or such  other  party to
                perform any such obligation or purported obligation.

5.2     Rights additional

        All the rights, remedies and powers vested in the Mortgagee (as security
        agent and  trustee  on behalf of the  Creditors)  hereunder  shall be in
        addition to and not a limitation of any and every other right,  power or
        remedy vested in the Mortgagee and/or the other Creditors or any of them
        under the Loan and Guarantee Facility  Agreement,  this Deed, the Master
        Swap  Agreement,  the other  Security  Documents or any such  Collateral
        Instrument  or at law and that all the powers so vested in the Mortgagee
        and/or the other  Creditors or any of them may be exercised from time to
        time and as often as the Mortgagee  and/or the other Creditors or any of
        them may deem expedient.

        5.2.1   No enquiry

                The Mortgagee shall not be obliged to make any enquiry as to the
                nature or sufficiency  of any payment  received by it under this
                Deed or to make any  claim or take any  action  to  collect  any
                moneys  hereby  assigned  or to enforce  any rights or  benefits
                hereby  assigned to the  Mortgagee or to which the Mortgagee (as
                security  agent and trustee on behalf of the  Creditors)  may at
                any time be entitled under this Deed.

5.3     Obligations of Owner, Charterer and Mortgagee

        The Owner and the Charterer  shall each remain liable to perform all the
        obligations  assumed by it in relation to the Owners  Assigned  Property
        and the Charterer's  Assigned  Property and the Mortgagee shall be under
        no obligation of any kind  whatsoever in respect thereof or be under any
        liability  whatsoever  in the event of any  failure  by the Owner or the
        Charterer to perform its obligations in respect thereof.

5.4     Discharge of Mortgage

        This Deed shall continue in full force and effect after any discharge of
        the Mortgage.

5.5     Liability unconditional

        The rights,  remedies and powers vested in the Mortgagee under this Deed
        shall not be affected  nor shall this Deed be  discharged  or reduced by
        reason of:

        5.5.1   the Incapacity or any change in the name,  style or constitution
                of the Owner or any other person liable;

        5.5.2   the Mortgagee granting any time, indulgence or concession to, or
                compounding   with,   discharging,   releasing  or  varying  the
                liability of the Owner or any other  person  liable or renewing,
                determining,  varying or increasing any accommodation,  facility
                or transaction or otherwise  dealing with the same in any manner
                whatsoever   or   concurring   in,   accepting  or  varying  any
                compromise,  arrangement  or  settlement or omitting to claim or
                enforce payment from the Owner or any other person liable; or

        5.5.3   any act or omission which would not have  discharged or affected
                the security constituted by the Charterer under this Deed had it
                been a principal  debtor  instead of a guarantor  or by anything
                done or omitted  which but for this  provision  might operate to
                exonerate such security.

5.6     Waiver of Charterer's rights

        Until  the  Outstanding   Indebtedness  has  been  paid,  discharged  or
        satisfied  in full (and  notwithstanding  payment of a  dividend  in any
        liquidation or under any compromise or arrangement) and  notwithstanding
        that the security created by this Deed and the other Security  Documents
        may have been  realised,  the Charterer  agrees that,  without the prior
        written consent of the Mortgagee, it will not:

        5.6.1   exercise its rights of subrogation,  reimbursement and indemnity
                against the Owner or any other person liable;

        5.6.2   demand  or  accept   repayment  in  whole  or  in  part  of  any
                indebtedness  now or  hereafter  due to the  Charterer  from the
                Owner or from any other  person  liable or demand or accept  any
                Collateral  Instrument  in respect of the same or dispose of the
                same;

        5.6.3   take any step to  enforce  any  right  against  the Owner or any
                other person liable in respect of any  Outstanding  Indebtedness
                and/or the Master Swap Agreement Liability; or

        5.6.4   claim any set-off or counterclaim against the Owner or any other
                person  liable  or  claim  or  prove  in  competition  with  the
                Mortgagee  and/or  the  other  Creditors  or any of  them in the
                liquidation  of the Owner or any other person liable or have the
                benefit of, or share in, any payment from or  composition  with,
                the Owner or any  other  person  liable or any other  Collateral
                Instrument  now or hereafter  held by the  Mortgagee  and/or the
                other Creditors or any of them for the Outstanding  Indebtedness
                or for the obligations or liabilities of any other person liable
                but so that, if so directed by the Mortgagee,  it will prove for
                the  whole or any part of its  claim in the  liquidation  of the
                Owner on terms  that the  benefit of such proof and of all money
                received by it in respect thereof shall be paid to the Mortgagee
                for  application  in or  towards  discharge  of the  Outstanding
                Indebtedness   in  such  manner  as  the  Mortgagee  shall  deem
                appropriate.

5.7     Suspense account

        Any money received in connection with this Deed (whether before or after
        any Incapacity of the Owner or the Charterer)  which would (but for this
        Deed) have been payable to the Charterer may, if an Event of Default has
        happened,  be placed to the credit of a suspense  account with a view to
        preserving the rights of the Mortgagee to prove for the whole of its and
        the other Creditors' claims against the Owner or any other person liable
        or  may  be  applied  in or  towards  satisfaction  of  the  Outstanding
        Indebtedness.

5.8     Settlements conditional

        Any  release,  discharge or  settlement  between the  Charterer  and the
        Mortgagee shall be conditional upon no security,  disposition or payment
        to the Mortgagee  and/or the other Creditors or any of them by the Owner
        or any other  person  liable  being  void,  set aside or  ordered  to be
        refunded  pursuant  to any  enactment  or law  relating  to  bankruptcy,
        liquidation,  administration  or  insolvency  or for  any  other  reason
        whatsoever  and if such  condition  shall not be fulfilled the Mortgagee
        shall be entitled to enforce this Deed  subsequently as if such release,
        discharge  or  settlement  had not occurred and any such payment had not
        been made.

5.9     Delivery of certain property

        If,  contrary to the  provisions of this Deed,  the  Charterer  takes or
        receives  the benefit of any  security or receives or recovers any money
        or other property, such security,  money or other property shall be held
        on trust for the Mortgagee  (as security  agent and trustee on behalf of
        the Creditors) and shall be delivered to the Mortgagee on demand.

5.10    Certificates conclusive

        Any  certificate  submitted by the  Mortgagee to the Charterer as to the
        amount or any part  thereof  hereby  secured  shall,  in the  absence of
        manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Charterer.

5.11    Collateral Instruments

        The  Mortgagee  shall not be  obliged to make any claim or demand on the
        Owner or to  resort  to any  Collateral  Instrument  or  other  means of
        payment now or hereafter  held by or  available  to it before  enforcing
        this Deed and no action taken or omitted by the  Mortgagee in connection
        with any such  Collateral  Instrument  or other  means of payment  shall
        discharge,  reduce,  prejudice  or affect  the  security  created by the
        Charterer  under this Deed nor shall the  Mortgagee  be obliged to apply
        any money or other property  received or recovered in consequence of any
        enforcement or realisation  of any such  Collateral  Instrument or other
        means of payment in reduction of the Outstanding Indebtedness.

6       Charterer's undertakings

        The Charterer hereby covenants with the Mortgagee (as security agent and
        trustee  for  and  on  behalf  of the  Creditors)  and  undertakes  that
        throughout the Charter Period:

        6.1.1   Notice

                it will from time to time upon the request of the Mortgagee give
                written  notice  (in  such  form  and  to  such  persons  as the
                Mortgagee may reasonably require) of the assignment contained in
                clause  3.1 to any person  from whom any part of the  Charterers
                Assigned  Property  is or may be due and will  procure  that the
                interest of the Mortgagee in the Insurances shall be endorsed on
                the  instruments  of  insurance  from  time  to time  issued  in
                connection  with the  Insurances as are placed with the Approved
                Brokers  by  reason  of a Notice  of  Assignment  of  Insurances
                (signed by the Charterer, the Owner and by any other assured who
                shall  have  assigned  its  interest  in the  Insurances  to the
                Mortgagee);

        6.1.2   Negative undertakings relating to Charter

                it will not without the prior written consent of the Mortgagee:

                (a)     Assignments

                        assign or otherwise  dispose of the  Charterer's  rights
                        and obligations under the Charter;

                (b)     Variations

                        agree to any variation of the Charter;

        6.1.3   Performance of Charter obligations

                it will perform its obligations under the Charter;

        6.1.4   Sub-chartering

                it will not without the prior  written  consent of the Mortgagee
                sub-let the Ship on demise charter for any period;

        6.1.5   Total Loss recovery

                it will, in the event that,  upon a Total Loss of the Ship,  the
                Mortgagee is disabled from  recovering  under the  Insurances or
                any  of  them  or  the  amount  of the  recovery  thereunder  is
                diminished and such  disablement or diminution  results from any
                breach by the  Charterer  of any of its  obligations  under this
                Deed and/or the  Charter,  pay to the  Mortgagee on demand a sum
                (which shall be applied in accordance with clause 12.1 as if the
                same had been a recovery under the Insurances in respect of such
                Total  Loss)  equal  to the  amount  which  would  but for  such
                disablement  have been  recoverable  under the Insurances or (as
                the case may be) a sum equal to the amount  hereby the insurance
                recovery has been diminished;

        6.1.6   Sister ship arrest

                it will,  in the event of the Ship at any time  being  arrested,
                seized,  detained  or  subjected  to  distress or levied upon by
                reason of any process, claim or Encumbrance of whatsoever nature
                arising out of the use or operation of the Ship by the Charterer
                or any of its agents,  employees or  sub-charterers or any other
                vessel  owned or  operated  or  managed by or  chartered  to the
                Charterer  or any  of its  affiliates  or its or  their  agents,
                employees or  charterers or  sub-charterers,  at its own expense
                take  prompt  action to secure  the  release  of the Ship and be
                responsible  for   discharging   each  and  every  liability  in
                connection with any such process, claim or Encumbrance;

        6.1.7   Sister ship indemnity

                it will  indemnify  the  Owner and the  Mortgagee  and the other
                Creditors and hold each of them harmless against all liabilities
                of whatsoever nature (including  penalties claims demands orders
                or judgments)  which the Owner or the Mortgagee and/or the other
                Creditors  or any of them may  suffer or incur in respect of the
                Ship and which arise out of the use or  operation of the Ship or
                of any other vessel owned or operated or managed by or chartered
                to  the  Charterer  or any of  its  affiliates  or its or  their
                agents, employees or charterers or sub-charterers;

        6.1.8   Compliance with Environmental Laws

                it will  comply  with,  and procure  that all its  Environmental
                Affiliates  comply  with,  all  Environmental   Laws  including,
                without  limitation,   requirements   relating  to  manning  and
                establishment  of financial  responsibility  and will obtain and
                comply with, and procure that all its  Environmental  Affiliates
                obtain and comply with, all Environmental Approvals;

   6.1.9     Ship's name and registration

                (a)     it will not change the name of the Ship;

                (b)     it will not do or suffer to be done anything, or omit to
                        do  anything,  the doing or  omission  of which could or
                        might  result  in  the  Ship  not  being   eligible  for
                        registration  under the laws and flag of the Flag  State
                        on and after  Delivery  or  result in such  registration
                        being  forfeited or  imperilled  or which could or might
                        result  in the  Ship  being  required  to be  registered
                        otherwise  than  under  the  laws  and  flag of the Flag
                        State;

        6.1.10  Abandonment

                it will not without the prior  written  consent of the Mortgagee
                (and then only  subject  to any  conditions  the  Mortgagee  may
                impose) abandon the Ship;

        6.1.11  Charterers Manager

                it will not without the prior  written  consent of the Mortgagee
                (and then only on and subject to such terms as the Mortgagee may
                agree)  appoint a commercial  or  technical  manager of the Ship
                other  than the  Managers  or  terminate  or amend  the terms of
                either of the Management Agreements;

        6.1.12  Encumbrances

                it will not without the prior  written  consent of the Mortgagee
                (and then only subject to such  conditions  as the Mortgagee may
                impose)  create or purport or agree to create or permit to arise
                or subsist any Encumbrance over or in respect of any part of the
                Charterer's  Assigned Property otherwise than to or in favour of
                the Mortgagee; and

        6.1.13  Notification of certain events

                it will notify the  Mortgagee  forthwith  by telex  confirmed by
                letter of:

                (a)     any  petition  or  notice of  meeting  to  consider  any
                        resolution  to  wind  up the  Charterer  (or  any  event
                        analogous  thereto  under  the laws of the  place of its
                        incorporation);

                (b)     the occurrence of any Default of which it is aware; or

                (c)     the  occurrence of any  Environmental  Claim against the
                        Charterer,  the Ship,  any other  Relevant  Party or any
                        other   Relevant   Ship  or  any   incident,   event  or
                        circumstances   which   may   give   rise  to  any  such
                        Environmental Claim.

7       General Undertakings

7.1     The Charter  Guarantor hereby agrees and undertakes to the Mortgagee (as
        security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the Secured  Creditors)
        that it will at all times throughout the Security Period:

        7.1.1   deliver  to the  Mortgagee  sufficient  copies  of  each  of the
                following documents:

                (a)     not later than one hundred  and eighty  (180) days after
                        the end of each  financial  year,  the  audited  balance
                        sheet  and  profit  and  loss  account  of  the  Charter
                        Guarantor and the audited consolidated balance sheet and
                        the  consolidated  profit and loss  account of the Group
                        for such  financial  year and a cash flow  statement for
                        the  Group for such  financial  year  together  with the
                        report of the auditors  thereon,  the notes  thereto and
                        the directors' report thereon, if any;

                (b)     at the time of issue  thereof  every  report,  circular,
                        notice or like document issued by the Charter  Guarantor
                        to its shareholders or creditors generally;

                (c)     at the  time  of the  delivery  of  the  annual  audited
                        financial  statements,  a  statement  from  the  Charter
                        Guarantor's  auditors stating the respective  amounts of
                        the Net Asset Value, Book Equity, the Total Debt and the
                        Total Market Value Adjusted Assets, in respect of or, as
                        the case may be, as at the end of the financial  year to
                        which such financial  statements  relate  indicating the
                        manner  in  which  the same  have  been  calculated  and
                        whether  or not the limits  imposed  by  clauses  7.2.1,
                        7.2.2, 7.2.6 and 7.2.7 have or have not been exceeded at
                        such time and so that each such statement  shall (in the
                        absence  of  manifest  error  or in the  absence  of the
                        Mortgagee reaching a different determination pursuant to
                        clause 1.2.10) be conclusive evidence of such amounts or
                        facts for the purposes of this Deed; and

        7.1.2   comply with its obligations under the Charter Guarantee.

7.2     Financial Undertakings

        The Charter  Guarantor hereby agrees and undertakes to the Mortgagee (as
        security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the Secured  Creditors)
        that it will at all times throughout the Security Period:

        7.2.1   ensure  that,  for the first nine (9) months  after the Drawdown
                Date, a minimum amount of twenty million  Dollars  ($20,000,000)
                shall be  standing  to the  credit  of the  Charter  Guarantor's
                Account and that for the period commencing nine months after the
                Drawdown  Date and  ending  on the  final  date of the  Security
                Period,   a  minimum  amount  of  twenty  five  million  dollars
                ($25,000,000)  shall be  standing  to the credit of the  Charter
                Guarantor's  Account and  further  ensure that at any time there
                are no Encumbrances  whatsoever  existing over or in relation to
                such minimum amounts;

        7.2.2   ensure that an aggregate minimum amount of fifty million Dollars
                shall at all times during the Security Period be standing to the
                credit of  accounts  of the  Charter  Guarantor  (including  the
                Charter  Guarantor's  Account) and the Charter  Guarantor  shall
                evidence  compliance  with the terms of this  clause at no later
                than three (3) monthly intervals  throughout the Security Period
                or  otherwise   promptly  upon  the  Mortgagee's  first  written
                request;

        7.2.3   endeavour that any Excess Cash Flow in relation to the Ship will
                be paid into the Charter Guarantor's Account;

        7.2.4   provide  details  to the  Agent at three (3)  monthly  intervals
                evidencing the operating expenses and the Earnings of the Ship;

        7.2.5   ensure that on the Drawdown Date, the minimum  average length of
                time that Fleet  Vessels  are  employed  on time  charter for is
                eighteen months;

        7.2.6   ensure   that  its  Net  Asset   Value  at  all  times   exceeds
                $125,000,000; and

        7.2.7   ensure  that  its  Book  Equity   shall  at  all  times   exceed
                $75,000,000.

        7.2.8   For the purpose of this clause 7.2 and clause 7.3, the following
                expressions shall have the following meanings:

        "Applicable   Accounting   Principles"   means  accounting   principles,
        concepts,  bases and  policies  generally  adopted  and  accepted in the
        United States of America consistently applied;

        "Book Equity" means the aggregate of the amounts  paid-up or credited as
        paid-up on the Charter  Guarantor's  issued share capital and the amount
        of the consolidated capital and revenue reserves of the Group (including
        any share  premium  account,  capital  redemption  reserve  fund and any
        credit balance on the consolidated profit and loss account of the Group)
        all as shown by the latest audited consolidated balance sheet and profit
        and loss account of the Group delivered under this Deed but after

        (a)     deducting any debit balance on such consolidated profit and loss
                account;

        (b)     deducting any amount shown in such consolidated balance sheet in
                respect   of   goodwill    (including    goodwill   arising   on
                consolidation) and other intangible assets;

        (c)     deducting (so far as not otherwise  excluded as  attributable to
                minority  interests) a sum equal to the  aggregate of the amount
                by which the book value of any fixed assets of any member of the
                Group has been  written up after 31  December  2005 (or,  in the
                case of a company  becoming a  subsidiary  after that date,  the
                date on  which  that  company  became  a  subsidiary)  by way of
                revaluation  not being,  in any such case, a revaluation  of all
                the Group's fixed assets in accordance  with a valuation  report
                from  independent  valuers  approved by the Mortgagee so long as
                any such  revaluation  is carried out not more  frequently  than
                once every five years.  For the purposes of this  paragraph  (c)
                any increase in the book value of any fixed asset resulting from
                its transfer by one member of the Group to another member of the
                Group  shall be deemed to result  from a writing  up of its book
                value by way of revaluation;

        (d)     excluding  amounts set aside for taxation as at the date of such
                balance sheet and making such  adjustments as may be appropriate
                in respect of any significant  additional  taxation  expected to
                result from transactions  carried out by any member of the Group
                after such date and not reflected in that balance sheet;

        (e)     deducting  all amounts  attributable  to minority  interests  in
                Subsidiaries;

        (f)     making such  adjustments as may be appropriate in respect of any
                variation  in the  amount of such paid up share  capital  or any
                such reserves after the date of the relevant  balance sheet (but
                so that no  such  adjustment  shall  be made in  respect  of any
                variation in profit and loss account except to the extent of any
                profit or loss,  calculated on a cumulative  basis,  recorded in
                the consolidated  profit and loss account of the Group delivered
                to the  Mortgagee  before the date of this Deed, or under clause
                7.1.1 in respect of any subsequent period);

        (g)     making such  adjustments as may be appropriate in respect of any
                distribution declared,  recommended or made by any member of the
                Group (otherwise than attributable directly or indirectly to the
                Charter Guarantor) out of profits earned up to and including the
                date of the latest  audited  balance sheet of that member of the
                Group to the extent that such  distribution  is not provided for
                in that balance sheet;

        (h)     making such  adjustments as may be appropriate in respect of any
                variation  in the  interests  of the  Charter  Guarantor  in its
                Subsidiaries  since  the date of the  latest  published  audited
                consolidated balance sheet of the Group;

        (i)     if  the  calculation  is  required  for  the  purpose  of  or in
                connection with a transaction  under or in connection with which
                any  company  is to  become or cease to be a  Subsidiary  of the
                Charter  Guarantor,  making  all  such  adjustments  as would be
                appropriate  if that  transaction  had been carried into effect;
                and

        (j)     making such  adjustments as may be appropriate in the opinion of
                the Mortgagee in order that the above amounts are  calculated in
                accordance with the Original Accounting Principles;

        "Earnings"  means all earnings of the Ship payable  under or pursuant to
        any Time  Charters  entered  into in relation  to the ship,  or else any
        other  charters  entered  into  by  the  Charterer  in  respect  of  the
        employment of the Ship;

        "Encumbrance"  means any mortgage,  charge  (whether fixed or floating),
        pledge, lien, hypothecation,  assignment,  trust arrangement or security
        interest or other encumbrance of any kind securing any obligation of any
        person  or any  type  of  preferential  arrangement  (including  without
        limitation title transfer and/or retention arrangements having a similar
        effect);

        "Excess Cash Flow" means any Earnings of the Ship minus the aggregate of
        the Charter Earnings and the operating expenses in relation to the Ship;

        "Finance Lease" means a lease treated as a finance lease pursuant to the
        Applicable Accounting Principles.

        "Fleet  Vessels"  means any vessels  owned,  or  chartered  on long-term
        demise charter to any member of the Group;

        "Group" means,  together, the Charter Guarantor and its Subsidiaries and
        "member of the Group" means any of them;

        "Net Asset Value"  means,  at any relevant  time,  the amount in Dollars
        resulting  after  deducting  the Total Debt from the Total  Market Value
        Adjusted Assets, in either case at such time;

        "Original  Accounting  Principles"  means those  accounting  principles,
        standards  and  practices  which  were  used in the  preparation  of the
        consolidated audited financial statements of the Group as at 31 December
        2005,  and for the year then ended and,  to the extent  that they do not
        conflict  with those  principles,  standards and  practices,  such other
        accounting  principles,   standards  and  practices  as  were  generally
        acceptable in the United States of America on 31 December 2005;

        "Total Debt" means the aggregate  principal amount  (including any fixed
        or minimum premium payable on final repayment) of:

        (a)     moneys  borrowed  or raised  by the  Charter  Guarantor  and its
                Subsidiaries;

        (b)     bonds, notes, loan stock, debentures,  commercial paper or other
                debt  securities  issued by the Charter  Guarantor or any of its
                Subsidiaries  not for the time being  beneficially  owned by the
                Charter Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries;

        (c)     sums outstanding  under  acceptances by the Charter Guarantor or
                any of its Subsidiaries or by any bank or acceptance house under
                acceptance  credits opened on behalf of the Charter Guarantor or
                any Subsidiary;

        (d)     deferred  indebtedness  of the Charter  Guarantor  or any of its
                Subsidiaries  for  payment of the  acquisition  or  construction
                price for assets or services acquired or constructed;

        (e)     rental payments under Finance Leases;

        (f)     receivables  sold or discounted  with a right of recourse to the
                Charter Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries;

        (g)     the  nominal  amount  of any  issued  and paid up share  capital
                (other  than  equity  share   capital)  of  any  Subsidiary  not
                beneficially   owned  by  the  Charter   Guarantor   or  another
                Subsidiary;

        (h)     preference share capital redeemable prior to the last day of the
                period of the Charter;

        (i)     indebtedness  secured by any Encumbrance over all or any part of
                the  undertaking,  property,  assets,  rights or revenues of the
                Charter  Guarantor or any of its  Subsidiaries  irrespective  of
                whether  or not such  indebtedness  is  supported  by a personal
                covenant  on the  part of the  Charter  Guarantor  or any of its
                Subsidiaries;

        (j)     indebtedness  incurred  in  respect of swaps,  forward  exchange
                contracts, futures or other derivatives;

        (k)     any  other  liability  arising  from a  transaction  having  the
                commercial effect of a borrowing or the raising of money;

        (l)     obligations  under  guarantees in respect of the  obligations of
                any  other  person  which,  if  such  person  were  the  Charter
                Guarantor or a Subsidiary,  would fall within  paragraphs (a) to
                (k) above,

        PROVIDED THAT

        (i)     moneys owing by the Charter  Guarantor  to a Subsidiary  or by a
                Subsidiary  to the Charter  Guarantor  or to another  Subsidiary
                shall not be taken into account;

        (ii)    the principal  amount of Total Debt deemed to be  outstanding in
                relation to Finance Leases or hire purchase  agreements shall be
                the  present  value  of  the  minimum  lease  or  hire  payments
                discounted at the interest  rate implicit in the relevant  lease
                or hire purchase agreement; and

        "Total Market Value Adjusted Assets' means the aggregate of:

        (a)     the  value  (less  depreciation   computed  in  accordance  with
                generally   accepted    international    accounting   principles
                consistently  applied) on a  consolidated  basis of all tangible
                fixed   assets  of  the  Group,   as  stated  in  the   relevant
                consolidated  financial  statements of the Group,  but excluding
                any ships at the  relevant  time  owned by  members of the Group
                which,   for  the  purposes  of  such   consolidated   financial
                statements,  are  included in the  consolidated  tangible  fixed
                assets of the Group (for the  purposes  of clauses  7.2 and 7.3,
                the "Relevant Ships"); and

        (b)     the aggregate of the market value of the Relevant Ships, as such
                market value shall have been most recently determined (as of the
                date of the relevant  calculation) pursuant to the provisions of
                clause 7.3 of this Deed by means of  valuations  obtained by the
                Mortgagee in  accordance  with the  provisions  of clause 7.3 of
                this Deed (and not the value of the Relevant  Ships as stated in
                the relevant consolidated financial statements of the Group).

        7.2.9   All the terms  defined in this  clause 7.2 and used in this Deed
                are to be determined on a  consolidated  basis in respect of the
                Group and (except as items are expressly included or excluded in
                the  relevant  definition  or  clause)  are  used  and  shall be
                construed in accordance  with Applicable  Accounting  Principles
                and  as  determined  from  the  latest  consolidated   financial
                statements of the Group  delivered to the Mortgagee  pursuant to
                clause 7.1.1.

        7.2.10  The  compliance of the Charter  Guarantor with the covenants set
                out in clauses 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.6 and 7.2.7 shall be determined
                on the basis of  calculations  made by the Mortgagee at any time
                by reference to then latest consolidated financial statements of
                the Group  delivered to the Mortgagee  pursuant to clause 7.1.1.
                For the  avoidance  of  doubt,  it is  hereby  agreed  that  the
                Mortgagee shall be entitled to make such  determinations  and/or
                calculations  at any time when, and in relation to any period in
                relation  to which,  the Charter  Guarantor  shall be obliged to
                comply with each of the  covenants out in clauses  7.2.1,  7.2.2
                and 7.2.7 without regard to when any such  financial  statements
                are due to be delivered or have been  actually  delivered to the
                Mortgagee pursuant to clause 7.1.

        7.2.11  For the purposes of this clause 7.2:

                (a)     no item shall be deducted or credited  more than once in
                        any calculation; and

                (b)     any amount  expressed  in a currency  other than Dollars
                        shall be  converted  into  Dollars  in  accordance  with
                        Applicable Accounting Principles.

7.3     Valuation of Relevant Ships

        7.3.1   Valuations

                Each of the  Relevant  Ships  shall,  for the  purposes  of this
                clause 7, be valued in Dollars as and when the  Mortgagee  shall
                require. Each such valuation of a Relevant Ship shall be made by
                an independent  firm of shipbrokers  appointed by the Mortgagee.
                Such  valuation  shall be made without,  unless  required by the
                Mortgagee,  physical inspection,  and on the basis of a sale for
                prompt delivery for cash at arm's length,  on normal  commercial
                terms as  between a  willing  buyer  and a  willing  seller  and
                without taking into account the benefit of any  charterparty  or
                other employment of such Relevant Ship. The value of each of the
                Relevant Ships  determined in accordance  with the provisions of
                this clause 7.3 shall be binding upon the parties hereto for the
                purposes of calculating  the Total Market Value Adjusted  Assets
                until  such  time  as  any  further  such  valuations  shall  be
                obtained.

        7.3.2   Information

                The Charter  Guarantor  undertakes to the Mortgagee to supply to
                the  Mortgagee  and  to any  such  shipbroker  such  information
                concerning   any  Relevant   Ship  and  its  condition  as  such
                shipbrokers may reasonably require for the purpose of making any
                such valuation.

        7.3.3   Costs

                All  costs  in  connection  with  the  Mortgagee  obtaining  any
                valuation  of each of the Relevant  Ships  referred to in clause
                7.3.1 shall be borne by the Owner.

8       Covenants concerning insurance and operational matters

8.1     Covenants

        The Charterer hereby covenants with the Mortgagee (as security agent and
        trustee for and on behalf of the Creditors)  and  undertakes  throughout
        the Charter Period:

        8.1.1   Insurance

                (a)     Insured risks, amounts and terms

                        to  insure  and keep the Ship  insured  free of cost and
                        expense to the  Mortgagee and in the joint names only of
                        the Owner and the  Charterer  or, if so  required by the
                        Mortgagee,  in the  joint  names  of the  Owner  and the
                        Mortgagee  and the Charterer  (but without  liability on
                        the part of the Mortgagee for premiums or calls):

                        (i)     against fire and usual  marine risks  (including
                                excess risks) and war risks,  on an agreed value
                                basis,  in such  amounts  and upon such terms as
                                shall  from  time to time be  acceptable  to the
                                Mortgagee.  For  the  avoidance  of  doubt,  the
                                Charterer  hereby  covenants  with the Mortgagee
                                and undertakes throughout the Security Period to
                                ensure  that the Ship  will be  insured  for not
                                less than the greater of:

                                (A)     the value of the Ship for the time being
                                        (as determined by the Mortgagee pursuant
                                        to   clause   8.2.2   of  the  Loan  and
                                        Guarantee Facility Agreement); and

                                (B)     such amount as will be at least equal to
                                        one  hundred  and thirty per cent (130%)
                                        of the  aggregate  of the  Loan  and the
                                        Guarantee Amount;

                        (ii)    and upon such terms as should  from time to time
                                be approved in writing by the Mortgagee;

                        (iii)   against    protection   and   indemnity    risks
                                (including   pollution  risks  for  the  highest
                                amount  in  respect  of  which  cover  is or may
                                become  available  for  ships of the same  type,
                                size,  age and flag as the  Ship and a  freight,
                                demurrage and defence  cover) for the full value
                                and tonnage of the Ship (as  approved in writing
                                by the  Mortgagee)  and upon such terms as shall
                                from time to time be  approved in writing by the
                                Mortgagee;

                        (iv)    in respect of such other  matters of  whatsoever
                                nature and howsoever arising in respect of which
                                insurance would be maintained by a prudent owner
                                of the Ship.

                        and to pay to the  Mortgagee  the cost (as  conclusively
                        certified  by  the  Mortgagee)  of (A)  any  mortgagee's
                        interest insurance (including, if the Mortgagee shall so
                        require,  mortgagee's  additional  perils (including all
                        P&I risks)  coverage)  which the Mortgagee may from time
                        to time effect in respect of the Ship upon such terms in
                        such  amounts  as it shall  deem  desirable  and (B) any
                        other  insurance cover which the Mortgagee may from time
                        to time  effect in respect of the Ship and/or in respect
                        of its  interest or potential  third party  liability as
                        mortgagee  of the  Ship  as  the  Mortgagee  shall  deem
                        desirable having regard to any limitations in respect of
                        amount or extent of cover which may from time to time be
                        applicable to any of the other insurances referred to in
                        this clause 5.1.1(a);

                (b)     Approved brokers, insurers and associations

                        to effect the  insurances  aforesaid in such currency as
                        the  Mortgagee  may approve  and  through  the  Approved
                        Brokers  and  with  such  insurance   companies   and/or
                        underwriters  as shall from time to time be  approved in
                        writing  by the  Mortgagee;  provided  however  that the
                        insurances   against  war  risks  and   protection   and
                        indemnity risks may be effected by the entry of the Ship
                        with  such  war  risks  and   protection  and  indemnity
                        associations  as shall from time to time be  approved in
                        writing by the Mortgagee;

                (c)     Fleet liens, set-off and cancellation

                        if any of the insurances  referred to in clause (a) form
                        part of a fleet  cover,  to  procure  that the  Approved
                        Brokers shall undertake to the Mortgagee that they shall
                        neither  set off  against  any  claims in respect of the
                        Ship any premiums due in respect of other  vessels under
                        such  fleet  cover  or  any   premiums   due  for  other
                        insurances,  nor  cancel  the  insurance  for  reason of
                        non-payment  of premiums  for other  vessels  under such
                        fleet  cover or of premiums  for such other  insurances,
                        and  shall  undertake  to  issue a  separate  policy  in
                        respect  of the  Ship if and  when so  requested  by the
                        Mortgagee;

                (d)     Payment of premiums and calls

                        punctually to pay all premiums, calls,  contributions or
                        other sums payable in respect of all such insurances and
                        to produce all  relevant  receipts or other  evidence of
                        payment when so required by the Mortgagee;

                (e)     Renewal

                        at least 14 days before the relevant policies, contracts
                        or entries expire,  to notify the Mortgagee of the names
                        of the brokers  and/or the war risks and  protection and
                        indemnity  associations  proposed  to be employed by the
                        Charterer  or any other  party for the  purposes  of the
                        renewal of such  insurances  and of the amounts in which
                        such insurances are proposed to be renewed and the risks
                        to be  covered  and,  subject  to  compliance  with  any
                        requirements  of the  Mortgagee  pursuant to this clause
                        8.1.1, to procure that appropriate  instructions for the
                        renewal of such insurances on the terms so specified are
                        given to the Approved Brokers and/or to the approved war
                        risks and protection and indemnity associations at least
                        10 days  before  the  relevant  policies,  contracts  or
                        entries expire, and that the Approved Brokers and/or the
                        approved  war  risks  and   protection   and   indemnity
                        associations will at least 7 days before such expiry (or
                        within such  shorter  period as the  Mortgagee  may from
                        time to time agree)  confirm in writing to the Mortgagee
                        as  and  when  such   renewals  have  been  effected  in
                        accordance with the instructions so given;

                (f)     Guarantees

                        to  arrange  for  the  execution  and  delivery  of such
                        guarantees  or  indemnities  as may from time to time be
                        required by any  protection  and  indemnity or war risks
                        association;

                (g)     Hull policy documents, notices, loss payable clauses and
                        brokers' undertakings

                        to deposit  with the  Approved  Brokers  (or procure the
                        deposit   of)  all   slips,   cover   notes,   policies,
                        certificates of entry or other  instruments of insurance
                        from time to time issued in connection  with such of the
                        insurances  referred  to in clause  (a) as are  effected
                        through  the  Approved  Brokers  and  procure  that  the
                        interest of the Mortgagee  shall be endorsed  thereon by
                        incorporation  of the relevant Loss Payable  Clause and,
                        where  the   Insurances   have  been   assigned  to  the
                        Mortgagee,  by  means  of  a  Notice  of  Assignment  of
                        Insurances (signed by the Owner and the Charterer and by
                        any other  assured who shall have  assigned its interest
                        in  the  Insurances  to  the  Mortgagee)  and  that  the
                        Mortgagee  shall  be  furnished  with pro  forma  copies
                        thereof and a letter or letters of undertaking  from the
                        Approved Brokers in such form as shall from time to time
                        be required by the Mortgagee;

                (h)     Associations'  loss payable  clauses,  undertakings  and
                        certificates

                        to procure that any protection and indemnity  and/or war
                        risks  associations  in  which  the Ship is for the time
                        being  entered  shall  endorse the relevant Loss Payable
                        Clause on the  relevant  certificate  of entry or policy
                        and  shall  furnish  the  Mortgagee  with a copy of such
                        certificate  of entry or policy  and a letter or letters
                        of  undertaking  in such form as shall from time to time
                        be required by the Mortgagee;

                (i)     Extent of cover and exclusions

                        to  take  all  necessary  action  and  comply  with  all
                        requirements  which may from time to time be  applicable
                        to the Insurances  (including,  without limitation,  the
                        making  of  all   requisite   declarations   within  any
                        prescribed time limits and the payment of any additional
                        premiums or calls) so as to ensure  that the  Insurances
                        are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications
                        to which the  Mortgagee  has not given its prior written
                        consent  and  are  otherwise  maintained  on  terms  and
                        conditions  from time to time approved in writing by the
                        Mortgagee;

                (i)     Correspondence with brokers and associations

                        to  provide to the  Mortgagee,  at the time of each such
                        communication,  copies  of  all  written  communications
                        between  the  Charterer  and the  Approved  Brokers  and
                        approved  war  risks  and   protection   and   indemnity
                        associations    which   relate   to   compliance    with
                        requirements   from  time  to  time  applicable  to  the
                        Insurances including,  without limitation, all requisite
                        declarations  and  payments  of  additional  premiums or
                        calls referred to in clause (i);

                (k)     Collection of claims

                        to do all things  necessary  and provide all  documents,
                        evidence  and  information  to enable the  Mortgagee  to
                        collect or recover  any moneys  which  shall at any time
                        become due in respect of the Insurances;

                (l)     Employment of Ship

                        not to employ the Ship or suffer the Ship to be employed
                        otherwise  than in  conformity  with  the  terms  of the
                        Insurances  (including any warranties express or implied
                        therein)  without  first  obtaining  the  consent of the
                        insurers  to such  employment  and  complying  with such
                        requirements  as to extra  premium or  otherwise  as the
                        insurers may prescribe;

                (m)     Application of recoveries

                        to apply all sums receivable  under the Insurances which
                        are  paid to it in  accordance  with  the  Loss  Payable
                        Clauses in repairing  all damage  and/or in  discharging
                        the  liability  in respect of which such sums shall have
                        been received;

        8.1.2   Ship's registration

                not to do or suffer to be done anything,  or omit to do anything
                the  doing or  omission  of which  could or might  result in one
                registration  of Ship as a  Liberian  ship  being  forfeited  or
                imperilled  or which  could or might  result  in the Ship  being
                required to be registered under any other flag than the Liberian
                flag and not to  register  the Ship or permit  its  registration
                under any other flag  without the prior  written  consent of the
                Mortgagee;

        8.1.3   Repair

                to keep the Ship in a good and  efficient  state of  repair  and
                procure that all repairs to or replacement of any damaged,  worn
                or lost parts or equipment  are effected in such manner (both as
                regards workmanship and quality of materials) as not to diminish
                the value of the Ship;

        8.1.4   Modification; removal of parts; equipment owned by third parties

                not without the prior  written  consent of the  Mortgagee to, or
                suffer any other person to:

                (a)     make  any  modification  to the Ship in  consequence  of
                        which her structure, type or performance characteristics
                        could  or  might  be  materially  altered  or her  value
                        materially reduced; or

                (b)     remove any  material  part of the Ship or any  equipment
                        the  value of which is such  that its  removal  from the
                        Ship  would  materially  reduce  the  value  of the Ship
                        without  replacing  the same  with  equivalent  parts or
                        equipment  which  are  owned  by  the  Owner  free  from
                        Encumbrances; or

                (c)     install on the Ship any equipment owned by a third party
                        which cannot be removed  without  causing  damage to the
                        structure or fabric of the Ship;

        8.1.5   Maintenance of class; compliance with regulations

                to maintain the  Classification  as the class of the Ship and to
                comply with and ensure that the Ship at all times  complies with
                the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts and all regulations
                and  requirements  (statutory  or  otherwise)  from time to time
                applicable to vessels  registered under the laws and flag of the
                Flag State or otherwise applicable to the Ship;

        8.1.6   Surveys

                to submit the Ship to continuous  surveys and such periodical or
                other surveys as may be required for classification purposes and
                to supply to the Mortgagee  copies of all survey  reports issued
                in respect thereof;

        8.1.7   Inspection

                to ensure that the  Mortgagee,  by  surveyors  or other  persons
                appointed  by it for such  purpose,  may  board  the Ship at all
                reasonable times for the purpose of inspecting her and to afford
                all proper  facilities for such inspections and for this purpose
                to give the Mortgagee  reasonable advance notice of any intended
                drydocking   of  the   Ship   (whether   for  the   purpose   of
                classification, survey or otherwise);

        8.1.8   Prevention of and release from arrest

                promptly to pay and  discharge all debts,  damages,  liabilities
                and  outgoings  whatsoever  which have given or may give rise to
                maritime,   statutory   or   possessory   liens  on,  or  claims
                enforceable  against,  the  Ship,  her  Insurances  or any  part
                thereof and, in the event of a writ or libel being filed against
                the Ship, her  Insurances or any part thereof,  or of any of the
                same being  arrested,  attached or levied upon pursuant to legal
                process or purported  legal process or in the event of detention
                of the Ship in exercise or  purported  exercise of any such lien
                or claim as aforesaid,  to procure the release of the Ship,  her
                Insurances from such arrest, detention attachment or levy or, as
                the case may be, the  discharge  of the writ or libel  forthwith
                upon receiving notice thereof by providing bail or procuring the
                provision  of security or  otherwise  as the  circumstances  may
                require;

        8.1.9   Employment

                not to employ the Ship or permit her  employment  in any manner,
                trade or business  which is forbidden by Liberian  law, or which
                is   unlawful  or  illicit   under  the  law  of  any   relevant
                jurisdiction,  or in carrying illicit or prohibited goods, or in
                any   manner   whatsoever   which  may   render  her  liable  to
                condemnation  in a  prize  court,  or to  destruction,  seizure,
                confiscation,   penalty  or  sanctions  and,  in  the  event  of
                hostilities in any part of the world (whether war be declared or
                not),  not to  employ  the  Ship or  permit  her  employment  in
                carrying  any  contraband  goods,  or  enter  or  trade to or to
                continue to trade in any zone which has been declared a war zone
                by any  Government  Entity or by the Ship's  war risks  insurers
                unless the prior  written  consent of the  Mortgagee is obtained
                and such special  insurance  cover as the  Mortgagee may require
                shall have been  effected by the Charterer and at the expense of
                the Charterer;

        8.1.10  Information

                promptly to furnish the Mortgagee  with all such  information as
                it may  from  time to  time  require  regarding  the  Ship,  her
                employment, position and engagements, particulars of all towages
                and salvages, and copies of all charters and other contracts for
                her employment, or otherwise howsoever concerning it;

        8.1.11  Notification of certain events

                to notify the Mortgagee forthwith by telex thereafter  confirmed
                by letter of:

        (a)     any damage to the Ship requiring  repairs the cost of which will
                or might exceed the Casualty Amount;

        (b)     any  occurrence  in  consequence  of  which  the Ship has or may
                become a Total Loss;

        (c)     any requisition of the Ship for hire;

        (d)     any  requirement  or  recommendation  made by any insurer or the
                Classification  Society or by any competent  authority  which is
                not, or cannot be,  complied with in accordance  with its terms;
                or

        (e)     any arrest or detention of the Ship or any exercise or purported
                exercise of a lien or other claim on the Ship or the  Insurances
                or any part thereof;

        (f)     any petition or notice of meeting to consider any  resolution to
                wind-up the Charterer (or any event analogous  thereto under the
                laws of the place of its incorporation); or

        (g)     the occurrence of any Default;

        8.1.12  Payment of outgoings and evidence of payments

                promptly to pay all tolls,  dues and other outgoings  whatsoever
                in  respect of the Ship and the  Ship's  Insurances  and to keep
                proper  books of account in respect of the Ship and, as and when
                the Mortgagee may so require,  to make such books  available for
                inspection   on  behalf  of  the   Mortgagee,   and  to  furnish
                satisfactory  evidence  that the  wages and  allotments  and the
                insurance and pension  contributions  of the Master and crew are
                being promptly and regularly  paid and that all deductions  from
                crew's  wages in respect of any  applicable  tax  liability  are
                being  properly  accounted  for and that the Master has no claim
                for  disbursements  other  than  those  incurred  by  him in the
                ordinary course of trading on the voyage then in progress;

        8.1.13  Repairers' liens

                not without the prior  written  consent of the  Mortgagee to put
                the Ship into the  possession  of any person for the  purpose of
                work  being  done upon her in an amount  exceeding  or likely to
                exceed the Casualty  Amount  unless such person shall first have
                given to the  Mortgagee in terms  satisfactory  to it, a written
                undertaking not to exercise any lien on the Ship for the cost of
                such work or otherwise;

        8.1.14  Chartering

                save for any Time Charter, not without the prior written consent
                of the Mortgagee (which the Mortgagee shall have full liberty to
                withhold)  and, if such  consent is given,  only subject to such
                conditions as the Mortgagee may impose, to let the Ship:

                (a)     on demise charter for any period;

                (b)     by any time or  consecutive  voyage  charter  for a term
                        which  exceeds  or  which  by  virtue  of  any  optional
                        extensions  therein  contained  might exceed twelve (12)
                        months' duration;

                (c)     on terms  whereby more than two (2) months' hire (or the
                        equivalent) is payable in advance; or

                (d)     below the market  rate  prevailing  at the time when the
                        Ship is fixed or other than on arms' length terms;

        8.1.15  Sharing of Earnings

                not without the prior written consent of the Mortgagee (and then
                only subject to such  conditions as the Mortgagee may impose) to
                enter into any agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings may
                be shared with any other person;

        8.1.16  Manager

                not  without  the prior  written  consent  of the  Mortgagee  to
                appoint a manager of the Ship other than the Commercial  Manager
                or the Technical Manager, or terminate or amend the terms of the
                Management Agreements;

        8.1.17  Notice of Mortgage

                to place  and at all  times  and  places  to  retain a  properly
                certified  copy of the  Mortgage  (which  shall form part of the
                Ship's  documents)  on board the Ship with her  papers and cause
                such  certified  copy of the Mortgage to be exhibited to any and
                all persons having  business with the Ship which might create or
                imply any commitment or encumbrance  whatsoever on or in respect
                of the Ship (other than a lien for crew's wages and salvage) and
                to any  representative  of the  Mortgagee  and to place and keep
                prominently displayed in the navigation room and in the Master's
                cabin of the Ship a framed  printed notice in plain type reading
                as follows:

                              "NOTICE OF MORTGAGE"

                This Ship is subject to a first preferred  mortgage in favour of
                [here  insert  name of  Mortgagee]  of [here  insert  address of
                Mortgagee].  Under the said mortgage,  neither the Owner nor any
                charterer  nor the Master of this Ship has any  right,  power or
                authority  to create,  incur or permit to be  imposed  upon this
                Ship any commitments or encumbrances  whatsoever  other than for
                crew's wages and salvage"

                and in terms of the said  notice it is hereby  agreed  that save
                and subject as otherwise herein provided,  neither the Owner nor
                the Charterer nor any other charterer nor the Master of the Ship
                nor any  other  person  has any  right,  power or  authority  to
                create,  incur or  permit to be  imposed  upon the Ship any lien
                whatsoever other than for crew's wages and salvage;

        8.1.18  Anti-drug abuse

                without  prejudice to clause  8.1.9,  to take all  necessary and
                proper precautions to prevent any infringements of the Anti-Drug
                Abuse Act of 1986 of the United States of America or any similar
                legislation  applicable to the Ship in any jurisdiction in or to
                which the Ship  shall be  employed  or located or trade or which
                may  otherwise be applicable to the Ship and/or the Owner and/or
                the Charterer and, if the Mortgagee  shall so require,  to enter
                into a "Carrier  Initiative  Agreement"  with the United  States
                Customs  Service and to procure that the same  agreement (or any
                similar agreement hereafter  introduced by any Government Entity
                of the United States of America) is maintained in full force and
                effect and performed by the Charterer;

        8.1.19  Compliance with environmental laws

                to comply with, and procure that all Environmental Affiliates of
                the Charterer  comply with, all  Environmental  Laws  including,
                without limitation,  requirements relating to manning submission
                of oil response plans, designations of qualified individuals and
                establishment  of  financial  responsibility  and to obtain  and
                comply with,  and procure that all  Environmental  Affiliates of
                the  Charterer   obtain  and  comply  with,  all   Environmental
                Approvals; and

        8.1.20  Compliance with ISM Code

                comply and will procure  that any Operator  will comply with and
                ensure  that the  Ship and any  Operator  will  comply  with the
                requirements of the ISM Code, including (but not limited to) the
                maintenance and renewal of valid  certificates  pursuant thereto
                throughout the Security Period;

        8.1.21  Withdrawal of DOC and SMC

                procure that any Operator will, immediately inform the Mortgagee
                if there is any  threatened  or actual  withdrawal of its DOC or
                the SMC in respect of the Ship;

        8.1.22  Issuance of DOC and SMC

                procure that any Operator  will,  promptly  inform the Mortgagee
                upon the issue to the Owner or any  Operator of a DOC and to the
                Ship of an SMC or the  receipt by the Owner or any  Operator  of
                notification that its application for the same has been refused;

        8.1.23  ISPS Code compliance

                and will procure that any Operator of the Ship will:

        (a)     maintain  at all times a valid and  current  ISSC in  respect of
                such Ship;

        (b)     immediately  notify  the  Mortgagee  in writing of any actual or
                threatened withdrawal, suspension,  cancellation or modification
                of the ISSC in respect of the Ship;

        (c)     procure  that the Ship will  comply  at all times  with the ISPS
                Code; and

        8.1.24  Substitute performance of Mortgage

                To the extent  that,  pursuant to the Charter or this Deed,  the
                Charterer   duly  performs  and   discharges  (or  procures  the
                performance   and  discharge  of)  the  duties  and  liabilities
                undertaking by the Owner in the Mortgage,  then such performance
                and  discharge  of  the  said  duties  and  liabilities  by  the
                Charterer shall, to that extent,  be deemed to be proper and due
                performance  and discharge of the Owner's duties and liabilities
                under the Mortgage.

9       Powers of Mortgagee to protect security and remedy defaults

9.1     Protective action

        The Mortgagee (as security agent and trustee on behalf of the Creditors)
        shall, without prejudice to its other rights,  powers and remedies under
        any of the Security Documents,  be entitled (but not bound) at any time,
        and as often as may be  necessary,  to take any such action as it may in
        its  discretion  think fit for the purpose of protecting or  maintaining
        the security created by this Deed and the other Security Documents,  and
        all  Expenses  attributable  thereto  shall be  payable  by the Owner on
        demand.

9.2     Remedy of defaults

        Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of clause 9.1:

        9.2.1   if the Charterer  fails to comply with any of the  provisions of
                clause 8.1.1 the Mortgagee  shall be entitled (but not bound) to
                effect and thereafter to maintain all such  insurances  upon the
                Ship as in its  discretion  it may think fit in order to procure
                the compliance with such provisions or alternatively, to require
                the Ship (at the  Charterer's  risk) to remain in, or to proceed
                to and remain in a port  designated by the Mortgagee  until such
                provisions are fully complied with;

        9.2.2   if the Charterer  fails to comply with any of the  provisions of
                clauses 8.1.3,  8.1.5 or 8.1.6,  the Mortgagee shall be entitled
                (but not bound) to arrange for the carrying out of such repairs,
                changes or  surveys as it may deem  expedient  or  necessary  in
                order to procure the compliance with such provisions; and

        9.2.3   if the Charterer  fails to comply with any of the  provisions of
                clause 8.1.8 the Mortgagee  shall be entitled (but not bound) to
                pay and  discharge  all such  debts,  damages,  liabilities  and
                outgoings  as are  therein  mentioned  and/or  to take  any such
                measures as it may deem  expedient or necessary  for the purpose
                of  securing  the  release of the Ship in order to  procure  the
                compliance with such provisions,

                and the Expenses  attributable  to the exercise by the Mortgagee
                of  any  such  powers  shall  be  payable  by the  Owner  to the
                Mortgagee on demand.

10      Powers of Mortgagee on Event of Default

10.1    Powers

        Upon the  happening of any Event of Default,  the Mortgagee (as security
        agent  and  trustee  for and on behalf of the  Creditors)  shall  become
        forthwith  entitled by notice given to the Owner in accordance  with the
        provisions of clause 10.2 of the Loan and Guarantee Facility  Agreement,
        or, as  regards  the  Master  Swap  Agreement,  in  accordance  with the
        relevant terms of the Master Swap Agreement,  to declare the Outstanding
        Indebtedness  to be due and payable  immediately  or in accordance  with
        such notice,  whereupon the Outstanding Indebtedness shall become so due
        and payable and (whether or not the Mortgagee  shall have given any such
        notice) the Mortgagee shall become  forthwith  entitled,  as and when it
        may see fit,  to put into force and  exercise in relation to the Owner's
        Assigned  Property and/or the Charterer's  Assigned Property or any part
        thereof all or any of the rights, powers and remedies possessed by it as
        mortgagee  and/or assignee of the Owner's  Assigned  Property and/or the
        Charterer's Assigned Property (whether at law, by virtue of the Mortgage
        and this Deed or  otherwise)  and in  particular  (without  limiting the
        generality of the foregoing):

        10.1.1  to require that all policies,  contracts,  certificates of entry
                and other records relating to the Insurances  (including details
                of  and  correspondence   concerning   outstanding   claims)  be
                delivered  forthwith to such  adjusters  and/or  brokers  and/or
                other insurers as the Mortgagee may nominate;

        10.1.2  to collect,  recover,  compromise and give a good discharge for,
                all claims then  outstanding  or  thereafter  arising  under the
                Insurances or any of them or in respect of any other part of the
                Owner's  Assigned  Property  and/or  the  Charterer's   Assigned
                Property,  and to take over or institute (if necessary using the
                name of the  Owner or, as the case may be,  the  Charterer)  all
                such proceedings in connection therewith as the Mortgagee in its
                absolute  discretion  thinks  fit,  and,  in  the  case  of  the
                Insurances,  to permit the brokers  through whom  collection  or
                recovery is effected to charge the usual brokerage therefore;

        10.1.3  to discharge,  compound, release or compromise claims in respect
                of the Ship or any other part of the Owner's  Assigned  Property
                and/or the Charterer's Assigned Property which have given or may
                give rise to any  charge  or lien or other  claim on the Ship or
                any other  part of the  Owner's  Assigned  Property  and/or  the
                Charterer's Assigned Property or which are or may be enforceable
                by proceedings against the Ship or any other part of the Owner's
                Assigned Property and/or the Charterer's Assigned Property; and

        10.1.4  to recover  from the Owner on demand all  Expenses  incurred  or
                paid by the  Mortgagee  in  connection  with the exercise of the
                powers (or any of them) referred to in this clause 10.1.

10.2    Liability of Mortgagee

        The Mortgagee  shall not be liable as mortgagee in possession in respect
        of all or any of the Owner's  Assigned  Property  and/or the Charterer's
        Assigned  Property to account or be liable for any loss upon realisation
        or for any  neglect or default of any nature  whatsoever  in  connection
        therewith for which a mortgagee in possession may be liable as such.

11      Application of moneys

11.1    Application

        All moneys  received by the Mortgagee (as security agent and trustee for
        and on behalf of the Creditors) in respect of:

        recovery  under the  Insurances  (other  than under any loss of earnings
        insurance  and any  such sum or sums as may have  been  received  by the
        Mortgagee  (as  security  agent  and  trustee  for and on  behalf of the
        Creditors)  in  accordance  with the  relevant  Loss  Payable  Clause in
        respect  of a major  casualty  as therein  defined  and paid over to the
        Charterer  as  provided  in clause  3.1.2 or which fall to be  otherwise
        applied under clause 11.3);

        11.1.2  Requisition Compensation; and

        11.1.3  the Owner's Assigned Property,

                shall be held by it upon trust in the first place to pay or make
                good the Expenses and the balance shall be applied in the manner
                specified  in  clause  13.1 of the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility
                Agreement  and the  surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Owner,
                the  Charterer or such other person as may for the time being be
                entitled thereto.

11.2    Shortfalls

        In the event that the balance referred to in clause 11.1 is insufficient
        to pay in full the whole of the Outstanding Indebtedness,  the Mortgagee
        shall be entitled to collect the  shortfall  from the Owner or any other
        person liable for the time being therefore.

11.3    Application of Insurances received by Mortgagee

        Any moneys received by the Mortgagee in respect of the Insurances (other
        than in respect of recovery  under any loss of earnings  insurance or in
        respect of a Total Loss) pursuant to the Mortgage and/or the assignments
        by the Charterer contained in clause 3.1 and 5.2 shall:

        11.3.1  if received by the  Mortgagee,  or in the hands of the Mortgagee
                after the occurrence of a Default but prior to the occurrence of
                an Event of Default,  be retained by the  Mortgagee and shall be
                paid over by the Mortgagee to the Charterer  (during the Charter
                Period) at such times,  in such  amounts  and for such  purposes
                and/or  shall  be  applied  by  the   Mortgagee  in  or  towards
                satisfaction  of any sums  from  time to time  accruing  due and
                payable by the Owner under the Security Documents or any of them
                or by virtue of payment  demanded  thereunder,  in each case the
                Mortgagee may in its absolute discretion determine; and

        11.3.2  if received by the Mortgagee,  or in the hands of the Mortgagee,
                after the  occurrence of an Event of Default,  be applied by the
                Mortgagee in the manner  specified in clause 11.1 and/or  clause
                11.3, as the Mortgagee may in its absolute discretion determine.

12      Remedies cumulative and other provisions

        12.1    No implied waivers; remedies cumulative

                No  failure  or delay on the part of the  Mortgagee  and/or  the
                Creditors or any of them to exercise any right,  power or remedy
                vested in it under any of the Security  Documents  shall operate
                as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by
                the Mortgagee  and/or the Creditors or any of them of any right,
                power or remedy nor the  discontinuance,  abandonment or adverse
                determination  of any proceedings  taken by the Mortgagee and/or
                the  Creditors  or any of them to enforce  any  right,  power or
                remedy  preclude  any  other  or  further  exercise  thereof  or
                proceedings  to enforce  the same or the  exercise  of any other
                right,  power or remedy nor shall the giving by the Mortgagee of
                any consent to any act which by the terms of this Deed  requires
                such consent prejudice the right of the Mortgagee to withhold or
                give consent to the doing of any other similar act. The remedies
                provided in the Security  Documents are  cumulative  and are not
                exclusive of any remedies provided by law.

12.2    Delegation

        The  Mortgagee  shall  be  entitled,  at any time and as often as may be
        expedient,  to delegate all or any of the powers and discretions  vested
        in it by the Mortgage and this Deed (including the power vested in it by
        virtue of  clause  14) or any of the other  Security  Documents  in such
        manner,  upon such terms,  and to such  persons as the  Mortgagee in its
        absolute discretion may think fit.

13      Costs and indemnity

13.1    Costs

        The Owner shall pay to the Mortgagee  and/or any of the other  Creditors
        (as security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the  Creditors)  on
        demand on a full indemnity basis all reasonable  expenses or liabilities
        of whatsoever nature (including legal fees, fees of insurance  advisers,
        printing,  out-of-pocket expenses,  stamp duties,  registration fees and
        other  duties or charges)  together  with any value added tax or similar
        tax payable in respect thereof,  incurred by the Mortgagee and/or any of
        the  other   Creditors  in  connection   with  the  enforcement  of,  or
        preservation  of any rights under,  this Deed or otherwise in respect of
        the Outstanding  Indebtedness and the security therefor or in connection
        with the preparation, completion, execution or registration of this Deed
        .

13.2    Mortgagee's indemnity

        The Owner hereby  agrees and  undertakes  to indemnify the Mortgagee and
        each  of the  other  Creditors  against  all  losses,  actions,  claims,
        expenses,  demands,  obligations and  liabilities  whatever and whenever
        arising which may now or hereafter be incurred by the  Mortgagee  and/or
        any  of the  other  Creditors,  or by any  manager,  agent,  officer  or
        employee  for  whose  liability,  act  or  omission  it  or  he  may  be
        answerable,  in  respect  of,  in  relation  to, or in  connection  with
        anything  done or omitted in the exercise or  purported  exercise of the
        powers  contained  this Deed or otherwise in  connection  therewith  and
        herewith or with any part of the Owner and the Owner's Assigned Property
        or the Charterer's  Assigned Property or otherwise howsoever in relation
        to, or in connection with, any of the matters dealt with in this Deed.

14      Attorney

14.1    Power

        By way of security,  the Owner and the Charterer each hereby irrevocably
        appoints the Mortgagee (as security  agent and trustee for and on behalf
        of the  Creditors) to be its attorney  generally for and in its name and
        on its behalf and as its act and deed or otherwise to execute,  seal and
        deliver  and  otherwise  perfect  and do  all  such  deeds,  assurances,
        agreements,  instruments,  acts and things which may be required for the
        full exercise of all or any of the rights,  powers or remedies conferred
        by this Deed or which may be deemed proper in or in connection  with all
        or any of the purposes aforesaid.  The power hereby conferred shall be a
        general power of attorney under the Powers of Attorney Act 1971, and the
        Owner and the Charterer ratifies and confirms,  and agrees to ratify and
        confirm, any deed, assurance, agreement,  instrument, act or thing which
        the Mortgagee may execute or do pursuant  thereto.  Provided always that
        such power  shall not be  exercisable  by or on behalf of the  Mortgagee
        until the happening of an Event of Default.

14.2    Exercise of power

        The  exercise of such power by or on behalf of the  Mortgagee  shall not
        put any person dealing with the Mortgagee upon any enquiry as to whether
        any Event of Default has  happened,  nor shall such person be in any way
        affected by notice that no such Event of Default has  happened,  and the
        exercise by the Mortgagee of such power shall be conclusive  evidence of
        the Mortgagee's right to exercise the same.

14.3    Filings

        The  Owner  and the  Charterer  each  hereby  irrevocably  appoints  the
        Mortgagee  (as  security  agent  and  trustee  for and on  behalf of the
        Creditors)  to be its  attorney in its name and on its behalf and as its
        act and deed or otherwise of it, to agree the form of and to execute and
        do all deeds,  instruments,  acts and  things in order to file,  record,
        register or enrol the  Mortgage  and/or  this Deed in any court,  public
        office or elsewhere  which the Mortgagee may in its discretion  consider
        necessary or  advisable,  now or in the future,  to ensure the legality,
        validity,  enforceability  or  admissibility in evidence thereof and any
        other assurance,  document,  act or thing required to be executed by the
        Owner and the Charterer pursuant to clause 15.

15      Further assurance

        The Charterer hereby further  undertakes at its own expense from time to
        time to execute, sign, perfect, do and (if required) register every such
        further  assurance,  document,  act or  thing as in the  opinion  of the
        Mortgagee  may be  necessary  or  desirable  for  the  purpose  of  more
        effectually mortgaging and charging the Charterer's Assigned Property or
        perfecting  the security  constituted  or intended to be  constituted by
        this Deed.

16      Sale of Ship

16.1    Termination of Charter

        Notwithstanding  anything  contained  in the  Charter,  if and  when the
        Mortgagee becomes entitled to put into force and exercise all the powers
        possessed by it as  mortgagee  of the Ship or otherwise  pursuant to the
        Mortgage or at any time thereafter, the Mortgagee shall be entitled (but
        not bound) to determine  the Charter at any time by notice in writing to
        the Owner and the Charterer  which notice shall operate to determine the
        Charter  forthwith  if the  Ship is then in port  and  free of  cargo or
        otherwise upon completion of the voyage (including discharge of cargo if
        any) upon which the Ship was engaged at the time when the said notice to
        determine was given. Upon  determination of the Charter pursuant to this
        clause 16.1 hereof all  liabilities  whatsoever of the Owner  thereunder
        shall be absolutely discharged and extinguished.

16.2    Preservation of Owner's rights

        If the  circumstances  in which the  Mortgagee  becomes  entitled  under
        clause 16.1 to determine the Charter shall constitute or include grounds
        on which the Owner was entitled to determine the same, any determination
        by the Mortgagee shall (as between the Owner and the Charterer)  operate
        as an  acceptance  by the Owner of the  Charterer's  repudiation  of the
        Charter  and the  Owner's  right to  recover  damages in respect of such
        repudiation shall be fully preserved.

16.3    Remedy of Owner's breach

        Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the Owner shall remain liable
        to perform all the  obligations  assumed by it under the Charter and the
        Mortgagee  shall have no obligations  whatsoever  thereunder or be under
        any liability whatsoever to the Charterer in event of any failure by the
        Owner to  perform  its  obligations  thereunder  or  hereunder  provided
        however that:

        16.3.1  a notice in writing (which shall set out full particulars of the
                matters  complained  of and  which  is  hereinafter  called  the
                "notice  of  complaint")  shall  be  immediately  given  by  the
                Charterer  to the  Mortgagee  in event of any  breach or alleged
                breach of the  Charter  by the Owner by  reason  whatsoever  the
                Charterer claims to be entitled to determine the Charter;

        16.3.2  within  fifteen (15) days after  receipt by the Mortgagee of any
                notice of complaint by the Mortgagee  shall be entitled (but not
                bound) to notify the  Charterer  in writing of its  intention to
                remedy the matters complained of by such notice of complaint and
                any remedial measures thereafter taken by the Mortgagee shall be
                without  prejudice to the Charterer's right to claim against the
                Owner  in  respect  of  any  loss  and  damage  suffered  by the
                Charterer by reason of such breach but in no circumstances shall
                the Mortgagee be under any  liability  therefore or for any loss
                or  damage  suffered  by the  Charterer  arising  from  delay or
                otherwise in effecting  such remedial  measures as the Mortgagee
                (whose decision shall be final) deems appropriate; and

        16.3.3  all expenses  whatsoever  incurred by the  Mortgagee in or about
                such  remedial  measures  as may  be  undertaken  on its  behalf
                pursuant to clause 16.3.2 shall be  recoverable by the Mortgagee
                from  the  Owner  on  demand  but  payment  by the  Owner to the
                Mortgagee pursuant to such demand shall not as between the Owner
                and the  Charterer  operate  as an  admission  by the  Owner  of
                liability for the matters  complained of in the relevant  notice
                of complaint.

16.4    Sale free of or subject to Charter

        Notwithstanding anything herein contained, in the event of a sale of the
        Ship  during the  Charter  Period  pursuant  to the power in that behalf
        vested in the Mortgagee by virtue of the Security  Documents,  such sale
        shall  be  free  of or  subject  to the  Charter  at the  option  of the
        Mortgagee.

16.5    Sale subject to Charter

        If the Ship is sold subject to the Charter (which  expression means that
        the purchaser of the Ship or any other person  chartering  the Ship from
        the purchaser  shall as from the date on which the Ship is registered in
        the name of the purchaser assume all future  obligations and acquire all
        future  rights and  benefits  under the  Charter),  the Owner and/or the
        Charterer  shall enter into such form of agreement with the purchaser as
        the  Mortgagee  may require to the intent that such  purchaser  or other
        person shall be  substituted in place of the Owner as owner or disponent
        owner of the Ship for the purposes of the Charter.

16.6    Sale free of Charter

        Without  prejudice  to  clause  16.1,  if the  Ship is sold  free of the
        Charter,  the  Owner and the  Charterer  shall  enter  into such form of
        agreement or agreements  as the Mortgagee may require for  determination
        of the Charter by mutual consent.

17      Continuation of Charter Period

        The Charterer shall continue to pay charterhire under the Charter on the
        days and in the amounts required under the Charter  notwithstanding that
        the Ship  shall  become  a Total  Loss or that  the  Charterer  shall be
        permanently deprived of her use for any other reason prior to the end of
        the Charter Period,  provided that no further instalments of charterhire
        shall become due and payable on any date after the earlier of the expiry
        of the period for the  prepayment of the Loan specified in clause 4.3 of
        the Loan and  Guarantee  Facility  Agreement  or the date upon which the
        Loan is prepaid in full in  accordance  with  clauses 4.3 and 4.5 of the
        Loan and Guarantee Facility Agreement.

18      Notices

18.1    Every notice,  request,  demand or other  communication  under this Deed
        shall:

        18.1.1  be in writing  delivered  personally or by  first-class  prepaid
                letter (airmail if available) or telex or facsimile transmission
                or other means of telecommunication in permanent written form;

        18.1.2  be deemed to have been  received  in the case of a letter,  when
                delivered  personally or three (3) days after it has been put in
                to  the  post  and,  in  the  case  of  a  telex  or   facsimile
                transmission  or other means of  telecommunication  in permanent
                written form, at the time of despatch (provided that if the date
                of  despatch  is  not a  business  day  in  the  country  of the
                addressee  or if the  time of  despatch  is after  the  close of
                business in the country of the  addressee  it shall be deemed to
                have been  received  at the opening of business on the next such
                business day); and

        18.1.3  be sent:

                (a)     to the Owner at:

                        c/o Korea Marine Fund Corporation
                        22F, Kyobo Bldg., 1, Jongno 1-ga
                        Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

                        Fax No.:  +(822) 3210-0100
                        Attention:  Kyung-Hwan Cho

                (b)     to the Charterer at:

                        c/o Top Tanker Management Inc.
                        109-111 Messogion Avenue
                        155 26 Greece

                        Fax no: + 30 210 69 78107-8
                        Attention:  Stamatis Tsantanis

                (c)     to the Mortgagee at:

                        Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V.
                        Coolsingel 93
                        3012 AE Rotterdam
                        The Netherlands

                        Fax no:  +3110 401 5323
                        Attention: Cees Kamphof

                (d)     to the Charter Guarantor at:

                        c/o Top Tanker Management Inc.
                        109-111 Messogion Avenue
                        155 26 Greece

                        Fax no:  + 30 210 69 78107-8
                        Attention: Stamatis Tsantanis

                or to such other  address  and/or  numbers as is notified by one
                party to the other parties under this Deed.

19      Counterparts

        This Deed may be entered  into in the form of two or more  counterparts,
        each  executed  by one or more of the  parties,  and,  provided  all the
        parties shall so execute this Deed,  each of the executed  counterparts,
        when duly exchanged or delivered, shall be deemed to be an original but,
        taken together, they shall constitute one instrument.

20      Severability of provisions

        Each of the  provisions in this Deed are severable and distinct from the
        others,  and if at any time one or more such  provisions  is or  becomes
        invalid,   illegal  or   enforceable,   the   validity,   legality   and
        enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Deed shall not in any
        way be affected or impaired thereby.

21      Law and jurisdiction

21.1    Law

        This Deed is governed  by, and shall be construed  in  accordance  with,
        English law.

21.2    Submission to jurisdiction For the benefit of the Mortgagee, the parties
        hereto  irrevocably  agree  that any  legal  action  or  proceedings  in
        connection  with this Deed may be brought in the English  courts,  or in
        the courts of any other country chosen by the  Mortgagee,  each of which
        shall have  jurisdiction  to settle any  disputes  arising  out of or in
        connection  with this  Deed.  Each of the Owner  the  Charterer  and the
        Charter  Guarantor  irrevocably  and  unconditionally   submits  to  the
        jurisdiction of the English courts, and the courts of any country chosen
        by the Mortgagee and the Owner, the Charterer and the Charter  Guarantor
        irrevocably  designate,  appoint and empower DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
        UK LLP at present of 3 Noble Street, London EC2V 7EE (in the case of the
        Owner) and Top Tankers (UK)  Limited at present of 50 Park  Street,  W1K
        2JJ London (in the case of the Charterer  and the Charter  Guarantor) to
        receive, for it and on its behalf,  service of process issued out of the
        English courts in any legal action or  proceedings  arising out of or in
        connection with this Deed. The submission to such jurisdiction shall not
        (and shall not be construed  so as to) limit the right of the  Mortgagee
        to take  proceedings  against the Owner and/or the Charterer  and/or the
        Charter Guarantor in any other court of competent jurisdiction nor shall
        the taking of proceedings in any one or more jurisdictions  preclude the
        taking of proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or
        not. The parties  further  agree that only the courts of England and not
        those of any other State shall have  jurisdiction to determine any claim
        which the  Owner or the  Charterer  or the  Charter  Guarantor  may have
        against the Mortgagee arising out of or in connection with this Deed.

21.3    Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999

        No term of this Deed  shall be  enforceable  pursuant  to the  Contracts
        (Rights  of Third  Parties)  Act 1999 by a person  who is not a party to
        this Deed.

IN WITNESS  whereof this Deed has been duly  executed as a deed the day and year
first above written
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                                   Schedule 1
                          Forms of Loss Payable Clauses

(1)     Hull and machinery (marine and war risks)

        By a General Assignment dated  ______________________  2006, KOMARF HOPE
        30 Shipping  Company Limited (the "Owner") and by a  Quadripartite  Deed
        dated  2006,  VITSI  SHIPPING  CO. LTD.  of 80 Broad  Street,  Monrovia,
        Republic of Liberia (the  "Charterer") have each assigned to FORTIS BANK
        (NEDERLAND)  N.V. of Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam,  The  Netherlands
        (the  "Mortgagee")  (as security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of
        the Creditors as herein defined (the  "Creditors"))  all the Owner's and
        the  Charterer's  rights,  title and interest in and to all policies and
        contracts of insurance from time to time taken out or entered into by or
        for the  benefit of the Owner  and/or the  Charterer  in respect of m.v.
        "Stopless" and accordingly:

        (a)     all claims  hereunder in respect of an actual or constructive or
                compromised or arranged total loss, and all claims in respect of
                a major  casualty  (that  is to say any  casualty  the  claim in
                respect  of  which   exceeds  five  hundred   thousand   Dollars
                ($500,000) (or the equivalent in any other  currency)  inclusive
                of any  deductible  shall be paid in full to the  Mortgagee  (as
                security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the  Creditors)
                or to its order; and

        (b)     all  other  claims  hereunder  shall  be  paid  in  full  to the
                Charterer or to its order,  unless and until the Mortgagee shall
                have notified insurers hereunder to the contrary,  whereupon all
                such claims shall be paid to the  Mortgagee  (as security  agent
                and trustee for and on behalf of the Creditors) or to its order.

(2)     Protection and indemnity

        Payment of any recovery which KOMARF HOPE 30 Shipping Company Limited of
        80 Broad Street,  Monrovia,  Liberia (the "Owner") or VITSI SHIPPING CO.
        LTD.  (the  "Charterer")  is  entitled  to make out of the  funds of the
        Association in respect of any liability,  costs or expenses  incurred by
        the Owner or the Charterer,  shall be made to the Owner or the Charterer
        or to its order, unless and until the Association receives notice to the
        contrary from FORTIS BANK  (NEDERLAND)  N.V. of  Coolsingel  93, 3012 AE
        Rotterdam,   The  Netherlands  (the  "Mortgagee")  in  which  event  all
        recoveries  shall  thereafter  be paid to the  Mortgagee or their order;
        provided that no liability  whatsoever  shall attach to the Association,
        its  Managers  or their  agents for  failure  to comply  with the latter
        obligation  until the expiry of two clear business days from the receipt
        of such notice.
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                                   Schedule 2
                  Forms of Notices of Assignment of Insurances

                              Notice of Assignment
              (For attachment by way of endorsement to the Policy)

KOMARF HOPE 30 SHIPPING of 80 Broad Street, Monrovia,  Liberia (the "Owner") and
VITSI SHIPPING CO. LTD. (the "Charterer") of 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Republic
of Liberia the owners and demise charterers  respectively of the m.v. "Stopless"
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that by a General Assignment dated  _______________  2006 and
entered into by the Owner with FORTIS BANK  (NEDERLAND)  N.V. (the  "Mortgagee")
(as  security  agent and  trustee for and on behalf of the  Creditors  as herein
defined (the  "Creditors"))  and by a Quadripartite  Deed dated ___________ 2006
and entered into by the  Charterer and the Owner with the Mortgagee (as security
agent and trustee for and on behalf of the  Creditors),  there has been assigned
by us to the Mortgagee  (as security  agent and trustee for and on behalf of the
Creditors) as mortgagees of the said vessel all  insurances in respect  thereof,
including  the  insurances  constituted  by the policy  whereon  this  notice is
endorsed.

Signed

For and on behalf of

KOMARF HOPE 30 Shipping Company Limited

Dated                   2006

Signed

For and on behalf of

VITSI SHIPPING CO. LTD.

Dated                   2006
<PAGE>

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by Jun Hyung Jon                         /s/ Jun Hyung Jon
for and on behalf of                          --------------------
KOMARF HOPE 30 SHIPPING COMPANY               Authorised Signatory
pursuant to a unanimous Written
Consent of Board of Directors
and Sole Shareholder
dated 9 March 2006
in the presence of:

Witness:  /s/ Byung Young Yu
Name:     Byung Young Yu
Address:  22F, Kyobo Bldg., 1, Jongno 1-ga
          Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

Occupation:  Deputy General Manager, KOMARF

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by
for and on behalf of
VITSI SHIPPING CO. LTD.
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated                   2006                  -------------------------
                                              Attorney-in-Fact
in the presence of:

Witness:
Name:
Address:
Occupation:

SIGNED,  SEALED and  DELIVERED as a DEED by
for and on behalf of
KOMARF HOPE 30 SHIPPING COMPANY
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated                   2006

in the presence of:

Witness:
Name:
Address:
Occupation:

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by Stamatis N. Tsantanis                 /s/ C. Kamphof
for and on behalf of                          -------------------
VITSI SHIPPING CO. LTD.                       Attorney-in-Fact
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated 8 March 2006

Witness:  /s/ Andreas Louca
Name:     Andreas Louca
Address:  Top Tanker Management Inc.
          109-111 Messogion Av, 15526, Greece
Occupation: Advocate

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by Stamatis N. Tsantanis                 /s/ C. Kamphof
for and on behalf of                          -------------------
TOP TANKERS INC.                              Attorney-in-Fact
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated 8 March 2006
in the presence of:

Witness:    /s/ Andreas Louca
Name:       Andreas Louca
Address:    Top Tanker Management Inc.
            109-111 Messogion Av, 15526, Greece
Occupation: Advocate

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by
for and on behalf of
FORTIS BANK (NEDERLAND) N.V.
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated                   2006
in the presence of:

Witness:
Name:
Address:
Occupation:

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by
for and on behalf of
TOP TANKERS INC.
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated                 2006
in the presence of:

Witness:
Name:
Address:
Occupation:

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED as a
DEED by Cees Kamphof                          /s/ C. Kamphof
for and on behalf of                          -------------------
FORTIS BANK (NEDERLAND) N.V.                  Attorney-in-Fact
pursuant to a power of attorney
dated 8 March 2006
in the presence of:

Witness:  /s/ G. J. Meyee
Name:     G. J. Meyee
Address:  Coolsingel 93
          3012 AE Rotterdam
          The Netherlands
Occupation:  Secretary

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