Document:

Exhibit 4.51

1.   Shipbroker

     Not Applicable

2.   Place and date

     Piraeus, 14th March 2006

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

     STARCRAFT MARINE CO. of the Marshall Islands

4.   Bareboat Charterers/Place of business (Cl. 1)

     GRAMOS SHIPPING COMPANY INC. of the Marshall Islands

5.   Vessel's name, call sign and flag (CI. 1 and 3)

     M/T "FAITHFUL" V7DP9, Marshall Islands

6.   Type of Vessel

     Motor Tanker

7.   GT/NT

     25877/12610

8.   When/Where built

     1992 Tsuneishi  Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Japan

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

     45720

10.  Classification society (C1. 3)

     Lloyds Register of Shipping

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

     March 2002

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)

     Worldwide within IWL

14.  Time for delivery (Cl. 4)

     See Clause 4

15.  Cancelling date (Cl. 5)

     30th March 2006

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

     EuroMed, Gibraltar/Skaw range, Americas excluding USA,
     AG/Japan range, in Charterers' option but in any event within IWL

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

     Minimum Six (6) months without extensions

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

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

20.  Trading limits (Cl. 6)

     Worldwide trading, but always within the Institute Warranty Limit (IWL)

21.  Charter period (Cl. 2)

     Five (5) years with Owners' option to extend this period by three (3)
     months in accordance with Clause 32B

22.  Charter hire (Cl. 11)

     USD$396,000

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)

     United States Dollars (USD), in same day funds by SWIFT of by other tested
     key electronic money transfer

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

     Rotterdam, The Netherlands
     Owners' bank account nr.
     24.07.56.185 with FORTIS BANK
     (NEDERLAND) N.V.

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

     See Clause 32A and 22(b)

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)

     First  Quadripartite  Agreement  and First  Mortgage in favour of the First
     Mortgagee.

     Second Quadripartite  Agreement and Second Mortgage in favour of the Second
     Mortgagee.

     Third  priority  mortgage  in  favour of  Charterers  as  security  for the
     Seller's Credit

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)

     Clause 14 does not apply.  As regards the insured  amount for Clause  13(f)
     purposes, see Clause 34

30.  Additional  insurance  cover,  if any, for Owners'  account limited to (Cl.
     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, Cl. 14(g))

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

33.  Brokerage commission and to whom payable (Cl. 27)

     Not applicable

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

     Three (3)

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)

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

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

     a)     Not applicable

     b)

     c)

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

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

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

     Not applicable

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

     Clauses number 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/ Alexandra Tatagia                    /s/ Andreas Louka
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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.

     See also Clause 33

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)

     (a)  The Vessel to be  delivered  under  this  Charter by the Owners to the
          Charterers  on an "as  is-where  is"  basis  (and,  in any  event,  as
          delivered  under the MOA (as defined in Clause 33 by the Charterers as
          sellers to the Owners as buyers) and without any  warranty  whatsoever
          by the Owners. Owners shall also not be liable for any latent defects.

     (b)  The  delivery  of the Vessel by the Owners and the taking  over of the
          Vessel by the Charterers  shall  constitute a full  performance by the
          Owners of all the Owners' obligations under this Clause 3.

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 MOA

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

     (a) This Charter shall be cancelled in the event the MOA is cancelled.  Any
     extension  of the  cancelling  date  of the  MOA  shall,  unless  otherwise
     specifically agreed,  constitute a similar extension of the cancelling date
     of this Charter.

     (b) deleted

     (c)  Cancellation  under this  Clause 5 shall be without  prejudice  to any
     claim a party  hereto  may  otherwise  have on the other  party  under this
     Charter.

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 specific 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.

     Always  provided that nothing  permitted under this Clause shall in any way
     violate  the terms of the  Financial  Instruments,  as same are  defined in
     Clause 33.

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

     The Owners and the Charterers shall each appoint  surveyors for the purpose
     of  determining  and agreeing in writing the condition of the Vessel at the
     time of  redelivery  hereunder.  The  Charterers  shall  bear all  expenses
     of-the-Off-hire Survey including loss of time, if any, at 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
          Charterers' 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  extent,  if any,  to which the rate of hire
          shall be varied and the ratio in which the cost of compliance shall be
          shared between the parties  concerned in order to achieve a reasonable
          distribution  thereof as between the Owners and the Charterers  having
          regard,  inter alia, to the length of the period  remaining under this
          Charter shall, in the absence of agreement, be referred to the dispute
          resolution method agreed in Clause 30. In any event the Charterers are
          obliged  to  redeliver  the  Vessel  in full  compliance  with all the
          requirements  and  regulations  of the SOLAS and/or IMO for  worldwide
          trading  applicable  or  provided  for  at  the  time  of  redelivery,
          including  also any U.S. Coast Guard  requirements  for the trading of
          the Vessel in U.S.A. territories.

    (iii) Financial Security - The Charterers shall maintain financial security
          or responsibility in respect of third party liabilities as required by
          any  government,  including  federal,  state  or  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  Charterers  shall  make  and  maintain  all  arrangements  by  bond or
     otherwise  as  may  be  necessary  to  satisfy  such  requirements  at  the
     Charterers'  sole  expense and the  Charterers  shall fully  indemnify  the
     Owners against all consequences whatsoever (including loss of time) for any
     failure or inability to do so.

     (b)  Operation  of the Vessel - The  Charterers  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,  including any foreign general municipality and/or
          state  taxes.  However the Owners  shall pay for the  Vessel's  annual
          tonnage taxes due to the flag State. The Master,  officers and crew of
          the Vessel  shall be the servants of the  Charterers  for all purposes
          whatsoever,  even if for any reason appointed by the Owners, and shall
          in any event be promptly and fully paid by the Chatterers., Charterers
          shall comply with the regulations regarding officers and crew in force
          in the country of the Vessel's flag or any other applicable law.

     (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  Charterers
          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 Charterers shall also have the liberty,  however always with
          the Owners' prior consent,  which shall not be unreasonably  withheld,
          to 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
     authorised 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 Charterers have not dry-docked  44her in accordance
          with Clause  10(c0.  The costs and fees for such  inspection or survey
          shall be paid by the Charterers; 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
     Charterers' account and form part of the Charter Period:

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

     All the above are without  prejudice to the rights of inspection  which the
     Mortgagees  (as defined in Clause 33) have under the relevant  terms of the
     Financial  Instruments;  the  Charterers  shall  at  all  tines  allow  the
     respective Mortgagee to exercise same.

9.   Inventories, Oil and Stores

     A complete  inventory of the Vessel's entire  equipment,  outfit  including
     spare parts,  appliances and of all  consumable  stores on board the Vessel
     shall be made by the Charterers in conjunction  with the Owners on delivery
     and again on  redelivery  of the  Vessel.  The Owners  shall at the time of
     redelivery take over and pay only for all bunkers; and lubricating oils, in
     the Vessel at the then current  market  prices at the ports of  redelivery.
     The  Charterers  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.  No  payment  shall  be made by the  Owners  on
     redelivery for provisions, paints, ropes, spare parts, etc.; they shall all
     become Owners' property on redelivery without any payment

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
          permissible  purposes  of the  Charterers  and  under  their  complete
          control in every  respect,  always subject to the terms and conditions
          of this  Charter.  The  Charterers  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  change the flag  and/or the name of the Vessel  during
          the Charter Period,  if this becomes  necessary for the proper trading
          of the  Vessel;  however in any such case the  Charterers  shall fully
          cover all the expenses relevant to such change including,  but without
          limitation,  the  financial,  legal and other  costs  relevant  to the
          registration  of such  changes  and  the  drafting,  execution  and/or
          registration   of  any   documentation   relevant  to  the   Financial
          Instruments  and/or  to  any  other   transactions   required  by  the
          Mortgagees  in view of any such change.  Provided  always that no such
          change of name or flag  shall be  allowed  without  the prior  written
          consent of the Mortgagees.-  Painting and re-painting,  instalment and
          re-instalment,  registration and  re-registration,  if required by the
          Owners, shall be at the Charterers' expense and time.

     (e)  Changes to  the Vessel - Subject to Clause  10(a)(ii)  the  Charterers
          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  Charterers  shall,  lithe  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 Charterers
          shall have the use of all outfit,  equipment,  and appliances on board
          the  Vessel  at the  time of  delivery,  provided  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 the 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 contracts 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 Charterers shall dry-dock the Vessel and
          dean  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,  thirty  six (36)  calendar  months
          after  delivery  or  such  other  period  as  may be  required  by the
          Classification Society or flag State.

     (h)  Management-The commercial,  technical and/or operational management of
          the Vessel  shall be carried  out  during  the  Charter  Period by TOP
          TANKERS MANAGEMENT INC. or any other first class company acceptable to
          the Owners and the Mortgagees. Such management to be cost free for the
          Owners,  who shall  not be  liable  to any  extent by reason of having
          approved such managers.  In addition such approval by the Owners shall
          in no way  constitute  any  limitation,  discharge or waiver of any of
          Charterers'  obligations  or  liabilities  under and  pursuant to this
          Charter.

     (j)  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 Organization and any applicable law.

     (k)  Financial  Statements - The Charterers  shall submit to the Owners and
          the Mortgagees  their audited annual  accounts as well as those of the
          Charter  Guarantor (as the latter Is defined in Clause 33), within 180
          days of each year end and  semiannual  management  accounts  within 90
          days of the half-year end.

     (l)  Survey Reports - The Charterers shall regularly supply the Owners with
          the  Classification  survey  reports,  including  but not  limited the
          annual survey and follow up reports,  all showing,  among others, that
          any  recommendation  has  been  promptly  and  timely  cleared  at the
          Charterers'  time and expense.  The  Charterers  undertake to keep the
          condition of the Vessel and all her  certificates in the best possible
          condition and standards for a vessel of the type and age of the Vessel
          and in any event to maintain the Vessel always in full compliance with
          the  highest/strictest  requirements  of the  Vessel's  Classification
          Society,  her  flag  State  and  all  other  applicable  rules  and/or
          requirements  throughout the Chatter Period.  Without prejudice to the
          generality of - the foregoing the coatings of the ballast tanks of the
          Vessel must be  maintained by the  Charterers  in accordance  with the
          Vessel's  highest/strictest  Classification  standards  throughout the
          duration of the Charter  Period  Inclusive of the time of  redelivery.
          Without  prejudice  to the above and  notwithstanding  anything to the
          contrary herein, the Charterers shall, not later than her next special
          survey,  at their own time and expense upgrade the coatings of all the
          Vessel's  ballast  tanks  so as  to  bring  them  up  to  the  highest
          Classification  standards  and  described  by the  latter  as being In
          "good"  condition.  In  addition  and within the same time  period the
          Charterers shall, also at their own time and expense,  rectify the two
          conditions  of Class  which  exist  against  the Vessel at the time of
          delivery,  namely items 008 and 009, to the full  satisfaction  of the
          Class.

     (m)  Reporting and Owners'  Representative-Throughout  the duration of this
          Charter the Charterers  shall keep the Owners  closely  informed about
          the Vessel's  position and  itinerary as well as the cargo  carried on
          board and the Vessel's  schedule,  by providing  such  information  in
          writing  every  fifteen (15) running  days.  The Owners shall have the
          right to place one  representative on board the Vessel who will travel
          with the Vessel and have free access to  communicate  with the Owners.
          The latter shall pay for the relevant  communication expenses but will
          not be charged for the victualling of their representative which shall
          be provided  without  charge.  The  representative  shall not have the
          right to interfere  with the  operation of the Vessel,  but shall have
          free access to all parts thereof and to all Vessel's log books.

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 pay to the Owners for the hire of the Vessel on a
          monthly basis 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.

     (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.  Hire shall  always be  punctually  paid free and clear of any
          right of set-off, discount, reduction or delay whatsoever.

     (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,  hire shall be
          fully paid by the  Charterers  to the Owners as provided in Clause 32E
          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  irrespective  of whether the Owners have submitted  their
          relevant interest invoice to the Charterers.

     (h)  If at any time the  Charterers  are required to make any  deduction or
          withholding in respect of any kind of taxes from any payment due under
          this  Charter  for the  account  of the  Owners,  the sum due from the
          Charterers in respect of such payment shall be increased to the extent
          necessary  to ensure  that,  after the  making  of such  deduction  or
          withholding,  the Owners receive on the due date for such payment (and
          retain,  free from any  liability  in  respect  of such  deduction  or
          withholding),  a net  sum  equal  to the sum  which  they  would  have
          received had no such reduction or withholding been required to be made
          and the Charterers shall fully indemnify the Owners against any losses
          or costs  incurred by them by reason of any failure of the  Charterers
          to  make  any  such  deduction  or  withholding  or by  reason  of any
          increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. The
          Charterers   shall  promptly  deliver  to  the  Owners  any  receipts,
          certificates  or other proof  evidencing  the amounts (if any) paid or
          payable in respect of any deduction or withholding as aforesaid.

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

     *)(b)The  Vessel  chartered  under  this  Charter  is  subject  to the
          Financial Instruments and the mortgages, as same appear in Box 28. 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
          Instruments  or as may be  directed  from  time  to  time  during  the
          currency of the Charter by the  Mortgagee or any of them in conformity
          with the Financial Instruments.  The Charterers confirm that, for this
          purpose,  they have  acquainted  themselves  with all relevant  terms,
          conditions  and provisions of the Financial  Instruments  and agree to
          acknowledge  this in writing in any form that may be  required  by the
          Mortgagee

     *)  (Optional,   Clauses  12(a)  and  12(6)  are  alternatives;   indicate
          alternative agreed in Box 28).

13.  Insurance and Repairs

     (a)  Throughout  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))  with first class  underwriters  and P&I Clubs and in such
          form as the Owners shall in writing approve,  which approval shall not
          be un-reasonably  withheld. The Charterers shall also at their expense
          take out any other  insurance  which  the  Mortgagees  may  reasonably
          require.  All such  insurances  shall be arranged by the Charterers to
          protect the interests of both the Owners and the  Charterers,  and the
          Charterers  shall be at liberty to protect under such  Insurances  the
          Interest of any managers they may appropriately  appoint. The relevant
          insurance policies shall cover the Owners and the Charterers according
          to their respective  interests.  Upon the request of a Mortgagee,  the
          Charterers  shall arrange that such Mortgagee is named as a co-assured
          in any of the above insurances that the said Mortgagee has to be named
          as such. In addition,  throughout the Charter  Period,  the Charterers
          shall pay to the First Mortgagee and the Second Mortgagee the cost (in
          the amount to be conclusively certified by the First Mortgagee and the
          Second   Mortgagee   in   writing)   of   any   mortgagee's   Interest
          insurance-including  mortgagee's  additional  perils  (all P&I  risks)
          coverage-which  the Mortgagees or either of them may from time to time
          effect in respect of the Vessel upon such terms and in such amounts as
          the Mortgagees  shall deem  desirable.  The Mortgagees  shall have the
          right to enforce the benefit of this  Clause by taking  direct  action
          against  the  Charterers  In  seeking  to get paid or to  recover  the
          payment of any monies payable to them hereunder.

          Subject  to  the  provisions  of the  Financial  Instruments  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 any repairs,  whether  under the  provisions of this
          sub-clause  13(a) or otherwise  howsoever,  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 Instruments.

     (d)  Subject to the  provisions  of the  Financial  Instruments  should the
          Vessel  become an actual,  constructive,  compromised  or agreed total
          loss under - the insurances  required  ounder  sub-clause  13(a),  all
          insurance payments for such loss shall be paid to the First Mortgagees
          or, as the case may be, the Second Mortgagees who shall distribute the
          moneys In  accordance  with the relevant  Financial  Instruments.  The
          Charterers  undertake  to notify the Owners and the  Mortgagee  of any
          occurrences  in  consequence of which the Vessel is likely to become a
          total loss as defined in this Clause and of all other  occurrences  as
          required under the Financial Instruments.

     (e)  Subject  to the  Financial  Instruments,  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 the insurance  coverage of each  insurance  against
          mentioned  herein the Insured  amount  shall be the sum  indicated  in
          Clause 34.

15.  Redelivery

     At the  expiration of the Charter Period the Vessel shall be redelivered by
     the Charterers to the Owners at a freely accessible, safe and ice-free port
     or place as  indicated  in Box 16 in such safe  berth or  anchorage  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  and not less  than
     fourteen  (14) running days'  definite  notice of expected date and port or
     place of redelivery.  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 a sale of the  Vessel in  accordance
     with Clause 22 at the place as directed by the Owners.  Notwithstanding the
     above,  should the  Charterers  fail to  redeliver  the  Vessel  within the
     Charter Period,  the Charterers  shall pay the daily equivalent to the rate
     of hire stated in Box 22 plus 10 per cent. or to the market rate, whichever
     is the higher,  for the number of days by which the  Charter  Period or the
     date of sale is exceeded.  In the latter case the Charterers  shall also be
     liable to reimburse the Owners any further  damages and/or losses which the
     latter may suffer as a result  thereof.  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 4o
     the Owners in the same or as good structure,  state, condition and class as
     that in which she was  delivered,  in any  event  free of any and all Class
     conditions and/or  recommendations,  fair wear and tear not affecting class
     excepted.  On redelivery the Vessel shall have been dry-docked as per Class
     requirements  or as otherwise may be appropriate  or necessary.  The Vessel
     upon  redelivery  shall have all her  survey  cycles up to date and all her
     trading,  national,  international and class certificates  clean, valid and
     unextended for at least the number of months agreed in Box 17.

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
     fastened during the Charter Period a-notices reading as follows:

     (a)  This Vessel is the property of (name of Owners).  It is under  charter
          to IDI  SHIPPING  COMPANY  LIMITED of Liberia  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 whatsoever."

     (b)  "NOTICE OF MORTGAGE

          This  Vessel  is  subject  to a first  priority  mortgage  and deed of
          covenant in favour of FORTIS BANK  (NEDERLAND)  N.V. of Coolsingel 93,
          3012AE, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  Under the said mortgage,  neither
          the Owners  nor any  charterer  nor the Master of this  Vessel has any
          right,  power or  authority  to create,  incur or permit to be imposed
          upon this Vessel any commitments or encumbrances whatsoever other than
          for crew's wages and salvage".

     (c)  "NOTICE OF SECOND MORTGAGE

          This  Vessel is  subject  to a second  priority  mortgage  and deed of
          covenant in favour of MAAS CAPITAL  INVESTMENTS B.V. of Coolsingel 93,
          3012AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  Under the said mortgage,  neither
          the  Owners  nor any  charterer  nor the  Master of the Vessel has any
          right,  power or  authority  to create,  incur or permit to be imposed
          upon this Vessel any commitments or encumbrances whatsoever other than
          for crew's wages and salvage".

          Furthermore,  the  Charterers  shall  throughout  the duration of this
          Charter  procure  that all  their  orders  for any  kinds of  supplies
          (including  but not  limited to bunkers and luboil) for the Vessel are
          appropriately  marked so as to warn all suppliers in advance that such
          supplies are  exclusively  provided to and payable by the  Charterers,
          the  suppliers not having any right of lien or suit against the Vessel
          and/or the Owners.  All delivery receipts for such supplies shall also
          be  appropriately  marked by the  Charterers  before the  supplies are
          delivered to the Vessel.

17.  Indemnity

     (a)  The Charterers  shall fully  indemnify the Owners,  the Mortgagees and
          their  respective  successors,   assigns,   directors,   shareholders,
          officers,   servants  and/or  agents  (collectively  "the  Indemnified
          Parties")  from and  against any loss,  damage,  claim,  cost  and/-or
          expense  incurred by them or any of them arising out of or in relation
          to the  operation  of the  Vessel  by the  Charterers  (including  but
          without  limitation,  costs of operating and  maintaining  the Vessel,
          environmental(.)  claim or any claim 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 or
          during 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 generality of the foregoing,  the Charterers
          agree to fully  indemnify the Owners 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 for which the Owners are exclusively  liable hereunder,  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  fully
          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; provided however that any
     such liens will be subordinate to any security  interest the Mortgagees may
     have over the same property.

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 fully  indemnify the Owners or any other  indemnified
     Party against any sums whatsoever which the Owners or any other Indemnified
     Party  shall-may  become  liable to pay and may pay in  consequence  of the
     Vessel becoming a wreck or obstruction to navigation.

21.  General Average

     The Owners 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 with the prior consent in writing of
          the  Owners  and the  Mortgagees,  in their  absolute  discretion  and
          subject to such terms and  conditions as the Owners and the Mortgagees
          shall approve.

     (b)  The Owners may sell the Vessel  during the  currency  of this  Charter
          subject  to the buyer  accepting  an  assignment  of this  Charter  or
          entering  into a  reasonable  novation  agreement,  and subject to any
          approvals  required  by  the  Mortgagees  pursuant  to  the  Financial
          Instruments.  In case of such sale the Charterers  shall be obliged to
          delete the mortgage in their favour stated in Box 28 and to provide to
          the buyers of the Vessel a  performance  guarantee of all  Charterers'
          obligations   hereunder  by  way  of  a  first  class  bank  guarantee
          acceptable to the buyer and In the amount of USD 2,550,000.

23.  Contracts 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-to-Blame Collision Clause.

       *) Delete as applicable.

25.  Requisition/Acquisition

     (a)  Without  prejudice to Clause 32E in the event of the  Requisition  for
          Hire of 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  Charterers  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)  Without  prejudice  to  Clause  32E 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  Charter
          Period when "Compulsory Acquisition" may occur, this Charter shall not
          be  deemed   thereby  or  thereupon  to  be  frustrated  or  otherwise
          terminated  and the  Charterers  shall  continue to pay the stipulated
          hire  until  the time when the  Charter  would  have  been  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 or malicious  damage,
          blockades (whether imposed against all vessels or imposed  selectively
          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 express 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  judgement 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 immediately leave
          such area.

     (c)  The Vessel shall not load contraband cargo, nor shall 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, nor shall 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,  should require 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 promptly paid by the Charterers.

     (e)  The Charterers shall have the liberty:

          (i)  to comply with all orders, directions,  recommendations or advice
               as to departure,  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 give the same
               under the terms of the war risks insurance;

         (iii) to  comply  with the  terms of any  resolution  of the  Security
               Council of the United  Nations,  any  directives  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)  Without  prejudice to Clause 32E in any and all the events of outbreak
          of war (whether  there be a declaration  of war or not) the stipulated
          hire shall continue to be paid in accordance with Clause 11.

28.  Termination

     (a)  Charterers' Default

     Subject to the  Financial  Instruments,  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'  bankers,  the  Owners  shall  give  the
               Charterers  written  notice of the number of clear  banking  days
               stated in Box 34 (as  recognised  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 Charterers fail to comply with the requirements of
               (1) Clause 6 (Trading Restrictions)
               (2) Clause 13(a) (Insurance and Repairs)

               provided that the Owners shall have the option, by written notice
               to the Charterers,  to give the Charterers 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.

          (iv) the Charter Guarantor (as defined in Clause 33) breaches or fails
               to meet any of the Financial  Undertakings provided in Clause 7.2
               of each  of the  First  Quadripartite  Agreement  and the  Second
               Quadripartite Agreement or Clause 10 of the Charter Guarantee (as
               same is defined in Clause 32A(a).

     (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 forty five (45) 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

          Without  prejudice to Clauses  11(e) and 32E,  this  Charter  shall be
          deemed to be  terminated  if the  Vessel  becomes  a total  loss or is
          declared as a constructive  or compromised or arranged total loss. 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 in respect of her constructive,
          compromised  or  arranged  total  loss or if such  agreement  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  Mortgagees'  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 (i) 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 , or (ii) the Charter
          Guarantor,  as  defined in Clause 33,  breaches  any of the  financial
          undertakings  stated in the  Charter  Guarantee  and/or the  Financial
          Instruments.

     (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.  Repossession

     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 any other 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  authorised  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.

     (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 mediators costs 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  the
               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.   Additional Securities

     a.   Charter Guarantee

          The  Charterers  shall procure and ensure that the Charter  Guarantor,
          shall unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee the performance of the
          Charterers under this Charter as a primary obligor and not merely as a
          surety, the relevant  guarantee  agreement to be in form and substance
          acceptable  to the  Owners  and  the  Mortgagees  and to  include  the
          Financial  Undertakings  provided  in Clause  7.2 of each of the First
          Quadripartite Agreement and the Second Quadripartite  Agreement.  This
          guarantee shall remain in place  throughout the whole duration of this
          Charter,  even in case of the sale of the Vessel  under  Clause  22(b)
          hereof.

     b.   Collateral Guarantees

          Without prejudice to the- provisions of Clause 32A(a)  hereinabove and
          in addition to the relevant security provided thereby,  the Charterers
          shall procure that the charterers of the rafts "SPOTLESS"  "DOUBTLESS"
          and "VANGUARD" ("the Collateral Guarantors") shall unconditionally and
          irrevocably  guarantee on a joint and several basis the performance of
          the Charterers  under this Charter as primary  obligors and not merely
          as  surety,  the  relevant  guarantee  agreements  to be in  form  and
          substance acceptable to the Owners and the Mortgagees. In addition the
          Charterers  hereby  undertake  to   unconditionally   and  irrevocably
          guarantee on a joint and several basis with the Collateral  Guarantors
          the  performance  of  each  respective   charter  party  of  the  m/ts
          "SPOTLESS",  "DOUBTLESS"  and "VANGUARD" by the respective  charterer,
          the  relevant  guarantee   agreement  to  be  in  form  and  substance
          acceptable to the Owners and the Mortgagees.  The guarantees  provided
          in this sub-Clause 32A(b) shall not be assignable by the Owners to the
          buyer of the Vessel under Clause 22(b) hereof.

          For the  avoidance  of any doubt all the  securities  provided in this
          Clause 32A shall be on a joint and several basis.

B.   Extension of the Charter Period

     At the request of the Owners which must be notified to the  Charterers  not
     later  than three (3) months  before the fifth  anniversary  of the date of
     delivery  of the Vessel to the  Charterers  under this  Charter and for the
     purpose of  assisting  the Owners to sell the Vessel,  the  Charter  Period
     shall be  extended  for a period  not  longer  than three (3) months at the
     option  of the  Owners.  In such  case the  hire  throughout  such  3-month
     extended period shall be USD 5,000 per day.  However in case the redelivery
     of the Vessel would have in any event delayed as a result of the Vessel not
     having  completed a voyage,  the hire shall be until the completion of such
     voyage at the rate  provided  in Clause 15 whilst the three  months  period
     provided under this  sub-Clause 32B shall commence after the termination of
     such  voyage.  For any  period  of delay in the  redelivery  of the  Vessel
     following  the lapse of the said 3-month  period  extension,  hire shall be
     payable in accordance with Clause 15.

     The  Charterers  shall  make  their  best  efforts  to assist the Owners in
     selling  the Vessel if and when the  Owners  require  them to provide  such
     assistance.

C.   Assignment of Sub-Charters

     The  sub-charters  of the Vessel  during the Charter  Period as well as all
     hire and freight payable to the Charterers  thereunder shall be assigned to
     the Owners and the Mortgagees as provided by the Financial Instruments.

D.   Charterers' Compliance with the Financial Instruments

     The  Charterers  shall  timely and  promptly  comply with all the terms and
     conditions  of the Financial  Instruments  and/or as may be required by the
     Mortgagees by virtue thereof.

E.   "Hell and Highwater" Clause

     This Charter is a "hell and highwater" bareboat charter and the Charterers'
     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 (i) any setoff, counterclaim,  recoupment, defence
     or other right which the  Charterers  or any other  person may have against
     the Owners or any other  person for any reason  whatsoever,  including  any
     default by the -Owners or any other  person in its  respective  obligations
     hereunder  or under any other  agreement,  (ii) any  unavailability  of the
     Vessel, after its delivery and acceptance by the Charterers hereunder,  for
     any reason,  including  any lack or invalidity of title or any other defect
     in the title,  seaworthiness,  condition,  design, operation or fitness for
     use of the Vessel,  or the ineligibility of the Vessel for documentation or
     for a  particular  trade,  (iii)  any  failure  or delay on the part of the
     Owners or any other  person,  whether with or without fault on its part, in
     performing or complying  with any of the terms or covenants  hereunder,  or
     any other  agreement,  (iv) any  damage to the  Vessel or  interruption  or
     cessation  in the  use or  possession  thereof  by  the  Charterers  or any
     subcharterer for any reason whatsoever and of whatever  duration  including
     an actual, constructive,  compromised or arranged total loss or requisition
     of title,  (v) any  insolvency,  bankruptcy,  reorganization,  arrangement,
     readjustment of debt, dissolution,  liquidation or similar proceeding by or
     against the Owners,  the Charterers,  any subcharterer or any other person,
     (vi)  any  breach  of any  representation  or  warranty  of,  or any act or
     omission of, the Owners  under this  Charter or any other  agreement at any
     time existing  between the Owners and the  Charterers,  (vii) any breach of
     any  representation  or  warranty  of, or any act or omission of the Owners
     under,  any  agreement  at any time  existing  between  the  Owners and the
     Charterers  and/or any  subcharterer,  (viii) any deprivation of use of the
     Vessel by reason of any act or omission of the Owners, (ix) any claims as a
     result of any other business  dealings by the Owners,  the Charterers,  any
     subcharterer or any other person, (x) the requisitioning,  seizure or other
     taking  of  title  to or use of the  Vessel  by any  governmental  or other
     competent  authority  or  otherwise  whether or not by reason of any act or
     omission of the Owners, the Charterers,  or any subcharterer,  or any other
     deprivation  or  limitation  of use of the Vessel in any respect or for any
     length of time,  whether or not resulting  from accident and whether or not
     without fault on the part of the Charterers or any  subcharterer,  (xi) any
     embargo on the  shipment  of any  products or any  prohibition  against the
     loading or discharging of vessels  containing the same, WO the interference
     with or prohibition of the  Charterers'  or any  subcharterer's  use of the
     Vessel,   (xiii)  the  invalidity  or   unenforceability  or  lack  of  due
     authorization  or other infirmity of this Charter or any other  subcharter,
     (xiv) the lack of right,  power or  authority  of the  Owners to enter into
     this Charter, (xv) any ineligibility of the Vessel for any particular trade
     or activity,  whether due to any failure of the Owners, the Charterers, any
     subcharterer  or any  other  person to comply  with any  applicable  law or
     otherwise, (xvi) any event of force majeure or any frustration,  (xvii) any
     applicable law or (xviii) any war or any other event that  automatically or
     by election  cancels any available  insurance  cover or (xix) for any other
     cause,  circumstance  or  happening,  whether  similar or dissimilar to the
     foregoing,   any  present  or  future   applicable   law  to  the  contrary
     notwithstanding.  The Charterers  hereby waive, to the extent  permitted by
     applicable  law, any and all rights which they may now have or which at any
     time  hereafter may be conferred  upon them,  by statute or  otherwise,  to
     terminate,  cancel,  quit or surrender  this  Charter or to any  abatement,
     suspension,  deferment,  return or reduction  of hire except in  accordance
     with the express terms hereof.  If for any reason  whatsoever  this Charter
     shall be terminated in whole or in part by operation of law or otherwise as
     specifically  provided herein,  the Charterers  nonetheless agree to pay to
     the  Owners or to the  person  entitled  thereto  an  amount  equal to each
     payment of hire at the time such payment  would have become due 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  Charterers  shall be
     final,  and the Charterers will not seek to recover all or any part of such
     payment  from the  Owners for any reason  whatsoever,-except  for  manifest
     error.

33.  Definitions

     "Charter  Guarantor"  means Top  Tankers  Inc.  of Trust  Company  Complex,
     Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960;

     "First  Mortgagee"  means Fortis Bank  (NEDERLAND)  N.V. of Coolsingel  93,
     3012AE  (or of  such  other  address  as may be  notified  to the  relevant
     parties) and includes  its  successors  in title as well as any person that
     may replace the First Mortgagee;

     "First  Mortgage"  means the first preferred ship mortgage on the Vessel to
     be executed by the Owners in favour of the First Mortgagee;

     "First Quadripartite Agreement" means the deed of assignment to be executed
     by the Owners,  the Charterers  and the Charter  Guarantor in favour of the
     First Mortgagee;

     "MOA" means the  Memorandum of Agreement  dated  14.3.2006 and made between
     the Charterers, as sellers and the Owners, as buyers, pursuant to which the
     Owners have agreed to buy and the Charterers have agreed to sell the Vessel
     on the terms and conditions mentioned therein;

     "Second Mortgage" means the second preferred ship mortgage on the Vessel to
     be executed by the Owners in favour of the Second Mortgagee;

     "Second   Mortgagee"  means  Maas  Capital   Investments  B.V.,  a  company
     incorporated  under the laws of The Netherlands  whose registered office is
     at Coolsingel  93,  3112AE,  Rotterdam,  The  Netherlands  and includes its
     successors in title, assignees or transferees;

     "Second  Quadripartite  Agreement"  means  the  deed  of  assignment  to be
     executed by the Owners,  the Charterers and the Charter Guarantor in favour
     of the Second Mortgagee;

     "Sellers'  Credit"  means the amount of USD 2,550,000 as provided in Clause
     17 of the MOA.

     "Financial Instrument" means:

     (a)  in the case of the First Mortgagee, the First Quadrapartite Agreement,
          and the First Mortgage; or

     (b)  in  the  case  of  the  Second  Mortgagee,  the  Second  Quadrapartite
          Agreement and the Second Mortgage,

     and "Financial Instruments" means both of them; and

     "Mortgagees" means, together, the First Mortgagee and the Second Mortgagee.

34.  Insured Amount [for the purposes of Clause 13(f)]

     For the  purposes of Clause  13(f) and at any  relevant  time,  the insured
     amount for the relevant  insurances  effected or, as the case may be, to be
     effected for the Vessel will be an amount in United States Dollars equal to
     the higher of (i) the market value of the Vessel at such  relevant time (as
     such market  value is  determined  by an  independent  firm of  shipbrokers
     appointed  by the  Owners in their  sole  discretion)  and (ii) the  amount
     required under the relevant terms of either Financial Instrument, if any.

     Each  valuation  made for the  purposes of this Box,  shall be made without
     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,  without  taking  into  account  the  benefit of any
     charterparty or other  engagement  concerning the Vessel.  The value of the
     Vessel determined in accordance with the provisions hereof shall be binding
     upon the parties hereto until such time as any further such valuation shall
     be obtained.Exhibit 4.52

Private & Confidential

                               Dated 15 March 2006

                              STARCRAFT MARINE CO.
                                    as Owner                     (1)

                          GRAMOS SHIPPING COMPANY INC.
                                  as Charterer                   (2)

                                TOP TANKERS INC.
                              as Charter Guarantor               (3)

                                       and

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

                               QUADRIPARTITE DEED
                            relating to m.v. Faithful
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                                    Contents

Clause                                                                   Page

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

2       Representations and warranties.....................................7

3       Assignment........................................................11

4       Owner's Assignment................................................12

5       Continuing security and other matters.............................13

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

7       Charter Guarantor's undertakings..................................17

8       Covenants concerning insurance and operational matters............22

9       Powers of Mortgagee to protect security and remedy defaults.......28

10      Powers of Mortgagee on Event of Default...........................29

11      Application of moneys.............................................30

12      Remedies cumulative and other provisions..........................31

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

14      Attorney..........................................................32

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

16      Consent, Termination of Charter and Quiet Enjoyment...............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

THIS QUADRIPARTITE DEED is dated 15 March 2006

BETWEEN:

(1)     STARCRAFT  MARINE CO. a company  incorporated  in the  Marshall  Islands
        whose  registered  office is at Trust Company  Complex,  Ajeltake  Road,
        Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960 (the "Owner");

(2)     GRAMOS  SHIPPING  COMPANY 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
        "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 agreement (the "Loan  Agreement") dated 14 March 2006 and made
        between (1) the Owner,  Tucker  Navigation  Co.,  Kemp Maritime S.A. and
        Comoros Shipping Limited (therein and herein together referred to as the
        "Borrowers"),  (2) the banks and financial  institutions whose names are
        set  out at  schedule  1  thereto  as  lenders  (the  "Banks"),  (3) the
        Mortgagee as agent,  arranger,  account bank, security agent and trustee
        and (4)  Fortis  Bank  (Nederland)  N.V.  as swap  provider  (the  "Swap
        Provider" and together with the Agent (as defined in the Loan Agreement)
        and the Banks, the "Secured  Creditors"),  the Banks agreed (inter alia)
        to  advance  by way of  loan  to  the  Borrowers,  upon  the  terms  and
        conditions therein, a maximum aggregate amount of up to $80,000,000;

(C)     by a 1992 ISDA Master  Agreement dated 14 March 2006 (the "Master Swap
        Agreement")  made between (1) the Borrowers  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
        Borrowers  in  respect of the Loan  (whether  in whole or in part as the
        case may be from time to time);

(D)     pursuant  to clause  16.14 of the Loan  Agreement,  each of the  Secured
        Creditors has appointed the Mortgagee as its security  agent and trustee
        and  pursuant  to a deed of trust  dated 14 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 Secured Creditors;

(E)     pursuant to the Loan 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 Secured 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 the  Maritime  Act of 1990 as amended of the
        Republic  of the  Marshall  Islands as  security  for the payment by the
        Borrowers of the Outstanding  Indebtedness  (which  expression,  for the
        avoidance of doubt, includes the Master Swap Agreement  Liabilities) (as
        those expressions are defined in the Mortgage);

(F)     by a "Barecon 2001" bareboat charter (the "Charter") dated 14 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 Agreement provided (inter alia) that, as a condition  precedent
        to the advance of the Loan,  the Owner and the  Charterer  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  Secured  Creditors  under the Loan
        Agreement,  the Master Swap Agreement and the other Security  Documents;
        and

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

        "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;

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

        "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
        24.07.56.150 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;

        "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 Borrowers or any
        of them 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;

        "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;

        "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;

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

        "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;

        "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 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 Agreement (as  conclusively  certified by
                the Mortgagee);

        "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);

        "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 Agreement at any relevant time;

        "Loan 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
        Faithful  General  Assignment  (as  such  term is  defined  in the  Loan
        Agreement))  or in such other forms as may from time to time be required
        or agreed in writing by the Mortgagee;

        "Master  Swap  Agreement"  means the 1992  ISDA  Master  Agreement  made
        between  the Swap  Provider  and the  Borrowers  dated  ict  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 Faithful General Assignment),
        or in such other form as may from time to time be  required or agreed in
        writing by the Mortgagee;

        "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 in rule 1.1.2 of the Code;

        "Other  Ships"  means  together,  Doubtless,  Spotless  and Vanguard and
        "Other Ship" means any of them;

        "Outstanding  Indebtedness" means the aggregate of the Loan and interest
        accrued and accruing thereon, the Master Swap Agreement Liabilities, the
        Expenses  and all other  sums of money  from  time to time  owing by the
        Borrowers to the Mortgagee and/or any of the Secured Creditors,  whether
        actually or  contingently,  present or future,  under or pursuant to the
        Loan 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  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 Agreement,  this Deed, the Mortgage
        and any other such  document  as is defined in the Loan  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,  any  interest
        thereon, the Master Swap Agreement  Liabilities and the moneys from time
        to time owing by the Owner  pursuant  to the Loan  Agreement  and/or the
        Master Swap Agreement (whether or not such documents, also secure moneys
        from time to time owing pursuant to any other document or agreement);

        "Security  Party" means any person who may at any time be a party to any
        of the Security Documents (other than the Secured Creditors);

        "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;

        "Ship" means the vessel m.v.  Faithful  registered as a Marshall Islands
        ship under  Official  Number  1689 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;

        "SMC" means a safety management  certificate issued in respect of a ship
        in accordance with rule 13 of the 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 ay  contract or
        otherwise; and

        "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 Agreement

        As between the Owner and the Mortgagee, this Deed shall be read together
        with the Loan  Agreement  but in case of any  conflict  between  the two
        instruments, the provisions of the Loan 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  Secured  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  Marshall  Islands as a  Marshall  Islands
                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  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 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 o 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 Secured  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  Marshall  Islands as a  Marshall  Islands
                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 Charter Guarantee or
                the Charter Guarantor'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  constitutional
                documents;

        2.2.5   No filings required

                it  is  not   necessary  to  ensure  the   legality,   validity,
                enforceability  or  admissibility  in  evidence  of the  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 both the Charter Guarantee and this Deed are in
                proper form for their enforcement in the courts of each Relevant
                Jurisdiction;

        2.2.6   Choice of law

                the choice of English  law to govern the 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  the  Charter
                Guarantor to authorise,  or required by the Charter Guarantor in
                connection    with,   the   execution,    delivery,    validity,
                enforceability  or  admissibility  in  evidence  of the  Charter
                Guarantee  and  this  Deed  or the  performance  by the  Charter
                Guarantor 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  Secured  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 Secured  Creditors)
        and the Owner that 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.

2.5     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  (which expression,
        for  the  avoidance  of  doubt,   includes  the  Master  Swap  Agreement
        Liabilities)  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  (which
        expression,  for the  avoidance  of  doubt,  includes  the  Master  Swap
        Agreement  Liabilities)  the Owner  with  full  title  guarantee  hereby
        assigns and agrees to assign to the  Mortgagee  (as  security  agent and
        trustee on behalf of the Secured  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 Faithful Operating Account (as
        such term is defined in the Loan Agreement) 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 Secured  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,  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 Secured Creditors) as a continuing security for
                the payment of the Outstanding  Indebtedness  (which expression,
                for the avoidance of doubt,  includes the Master Swap  Agreement
                Liabilities)   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  Secured  Creditors  in  respect  of  the
                Outstanding Indebtedness (which expression, for the avoidance of
                doubt,  includes the Master Swap Agreement  Liabilities)  or any
                part thereof and the Mortgagee and/or the Secured Creditors) and
                shall  remain in full  force and  effect  until the  Outstanding
                Indebtedness  (which  expression,  for the  avoidance  of doubt,
                includes  the  Master  Swap  Agreement   Liabilities)  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  Secured
                Creditors  ()party of them any right or remedy of the  Mortgagee
                and/or  the  Secured  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 Secured  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 Secured Creditors, by any invalidity
                in or irregularity or unenforceability of the obligations of the
                Owner or any other person under the Loan 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 Secured
                Creditors  fully  indemnified  against any loss  suffered by the
                Mortgagee  and/or  the  Secured  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 Secured 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 Secured Creditors or any of
        them under the Loan 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  Secured
        Creditors or any of them may be exercised from time to time and as often
        as the  Mortgagee  and/or the Secured  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 Owner's 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 (which expression,  for the avoidance
        of doubt, includes the Master Swap Agreement Liabilities) 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,  the other  Borrowers  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,  the other  Borrowers 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,  the other
                Borrowers  or  any  other  person   liable  in  respect  of  any
                Outstanding Indebtedness (which expression, for the avoidance of
                doubt, includes the Master Swap Agreement Liabilities); or

        5.6.4   claim any set-off or counterclaim  against the Owner,  the other
                Borrowers  or any  other  person  liable  or  claim  or prove in
                competition with the Mortgagee  and/or the Secured  Creditors or
                any of them in the liquidation of the Owner, the other Borrowers
                or any other person  liable or have the benefit of, or share in,
                any  payment  from or  composition  with,  the Owner,  the other
                Borrowers  or any other  person  liable or any other  Collateral
                Instrument  now or hereafter  held by the  Mortgagee  and/or the
                Secured   Creditors   or  any  of  them   for  the   Outstanding
                Indebtedness  (which  expression,  for the  avoidance  of doubt,
                includes  the  Master  Swap  Agreement  Liabilities)  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  (which  expression,  for the  avoidance  of doubt,
                includes the Master Swap Agreement  Liabilities)  in such manner
                as the Mortgagee shall deem appropriate.

5.7     Suspense account

        Any moneys  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 Secured  Creditors'  claims against the Owner,  the other
        Borrowers  or any other  person  liable or may be  applied in or towards
        satisfaction of the Outstanding Indebtedness (which expression,  for the
        avoidance of doubt, includes the Master Swap Agreement Liabilities).

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  Secured  Creditors  or any of them by the
        Owner,  the other  Borrowers 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  Secured  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 Secured  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  Charterer's
                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   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 11.1 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;

        6.1.5   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;

        6.1.6   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;

        6.1.7   Charterer's 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;

        6.1.8   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

        6.1.9   Notification of certain events

                it will notify the Mortgagee forthwith by facsimile 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       Charter Guarantor's undertakings

7.1     General 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:

        7.1.1   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,
                        7.2.4 and 7.2.5 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 7.2.8) 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:

                (a)     a minimum amount of Twenty million Dollars ($20,000,000)
                        shall  be   standing   to  the  credit  of  the  Charter
                        Guarantor's  Account  for the period  commencing  on the
                        first  Drawdown  Date and ending on 31 December 2006 and
                        thereafter  and  until 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
                        there are no Encumbrances whatsoever existing over or in
                        relation to such minimum amount; and

                (b)     it  maintains  cash  balances of at least Fifty  million
                        Dollars ($50,000,000) in bank accounts in its name or in
                        the name of a member  of the  Group  and  agreed  by the
                        Mortgagee  in  writing  from  time to  time  and for the
                        purposes of this clause  7.2.1(b) the  expression  "bank
                        accounts"  shall  exclude  any bank  accounts  which are
                        subject to an Encumbrance;

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

        7.2.3   provide details to the Mortgagee at three (3) monthly  intervals
                starting  from the date of this Deed  evidencing  the  operating
                expenses and the Earnings of the Ship;

        7.2.4   ensure that its Net Asset Value at all times exceeds One hundred
                and twenty five million Dollars ($125,000,000); and

        7.2.5   ensure that its Book Equity  shall at all times  exceed  Seventy
                five million Dollars ($75,000,000).

        7.2.6   For the  purpose  of this  clause 7, 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.
                        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  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 (a) the
                aggregate of the Charter Earnings and (b) the operating expenses
                in relation to the Ship;

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

                "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;

                (k)     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;

                (l)     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;

                (m)     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;

                (n)     rental payments under Finance Leases;

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

                (p)     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;

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

                (r)     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;

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

                (t)     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).

        7.2.7   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.

        7.2.8   The  compliance of the Charter  Guarantor with the covenants set
                out in clauses 7.2.1, 7.2.4 and 7.2.5 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,  7.2.4
                and 7.2.5 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.

        7.2.9   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  Secured  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,  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  Agreement);
                                        and

                                (B)     such  amount  as will,  when  aggregated
                                        with  the  amounts  of  the   equivalent
                                        insurance  of  the  Other  Ships,  be at
                                        least  equal to one  hundred  and thirty
                                        per cent (130%) of the  aggregate of the
                                        Loan  and the  Swap  Exposure  (as  such
                                        expression   is   defined  in  the  Loan
                                        Agreement);

                        (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; and

                        (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 8.1.1(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 8.1.1(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  8.1.1(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;

                (j)     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 8.1.10);

                (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 s' Ian 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; and

                (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 Marshall  Islands 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 Marshall
                Islands  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 Marshall Islands 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  facsimile  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 charter disclosed by the Charterer to the Mortgagee
                in writing and agreed by the  Mortgagee  in  writing,  in either
                case  prior to the date of this  Deed,  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
                (as such term is defined in the Loan Agreement), or terminate or
                amend the terms of the Faithful Commercial  Management Agreement
                (as such term is defined in the Loan Agreement);

        8.1.17  Notice of Mortgage

                to place  and at all  times  and  places  to  retain a  properly
                certified  copy cc 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  priority  mortgage in favour of
                FORTIS  BANK   (NEDERLAND)   N.V.  of  Coolsingel  93,  3012  AE
                Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 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  and  Border  Protection  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;

        8.1.20  Compliance with 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 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;
                and

        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;

                (b)     in respect of such Ship;

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

                (d)     procure  that the Ship will comply at all times with the
                        ISPS Code.

8.2     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 Secured
        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  Secured  Creditors)  shall
        become  forthwith  entitled by notice  given to the Owner in  accordance
        with the  provisions of clause 10.2 of the Loan Agreement or, as regards
        the Master Swap Agreement,  in accordance with the relevant terms of the
        Master Swap Agreement,  to declare the Outstanding  Indebtedness  (which
        expression,  for the  avoidance  of  doubt,  includes  the  Master  Swap
        Agreement   Liabilities)  to  be  due  and  payable  immediately  or  in
        accordance  with such notice,  whereupon  the  Outstanding  Indebtedness
        (which expression,  for the avoidance of doubt, includes the Master Swap
        Agreement  Liabilities)  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 Secured Creditors) in respect of:

        11.1.1  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  Secured  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:

                (a)     in the case of moneys received in respect of sale of the
                        Ship or recovery  under the  Insurances in relation to a
                        Total Loss of the Ship or her Requisition Compensation:

                        (i)     if no Default has occurred and is continuing, be
                                applied  in  making  such   prepayment   as  the
                                Mortgagee may require in accordance  with clause
                                4.3 of the Loan  Agreement and in or towards any
                                payments  required pursuant to clause 4.4 of the
                                Loan Agreement and the balance, if any, shall be
                                paid to the Owner; or

                        (ii)    if a Default has occurred and is continuing  but
                                no Event of Default has occurred, be retained by
                                the  Mortgagee on a suspense  account until such
                                time as such  Default is  remedied  and no other
                                Default   has   occurred   and   is   continuing
                                (whereupon  such  moneys  shall  be  applied  in
                                accordance with clause 4.3 of the Loan Agreement
                                and in or towards any payments required pursuant
                                to  clause  4.4 of the Loan  Agreement)  and the
                                balance,  if any,  shall  be  paid to the  Owner
                                provided that,  until applied in accordance with
                                clause  4.3  of  the  Loan  Agreement  and in or
                                towards any payments required pursuant to clause
                                4.4 of  the  Loan  Agreement  or  paragraph  (b)
                                below,  moneys so  retained  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 by virtue of payment demanded thereunder
                                in  each  case  as  the  Mortgagee  may  in  its
                                absolute discretion determine; and

                (b)     in any case,  if an Event of Default  has  occurred,  be
                        applied  by the  Mortgagee  in the manner  specified  in
                        clause  13.1  of  the  Loan  Agreement  and/or  (at  the
                        absolute discretion of the Mortgagee) in accordance with
                        sub-clause (a)(ii) above,

                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 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 or the other  Borrowers  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 Hause
                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  Secured
        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  Secured  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 Secured  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 (as security  agent and trustee for
        and on  behalf  of the  Secured  Creditors)  and/or  any of the  Secured
        Creditors  on  demand  on  a  full  indemnity   basis  all  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 Secured  Creditors in  connection  with the
        enforcement  of,  or  preservation  of any  rights  under,  this Deed or
        otherwise in respect of the Outstanding  Indebtedness (which expression,
        for  the  avoidance  of  doubt,   includes  the  Master  Swap  Agreement
        Liabilities)  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  Secured  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  Secured  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 Secured  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
        Secured  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      Consent, Termination of Charter and Quiet Enjoyment

16.1    Consent

        In  consideration  of the Charterer  executing  this Deed, the Mortgagee
        consents to the entry by the Owner into the Charter and the  performance
        of its obligations thereunder.

16.2    Quiet Enjoyment and termination

        In  consideration  of the  undertakings  of the  Charterer  contained in
        clauses  6 and 8 and of the  Charter  Guarantor  contained  in clause 7,
        provided  (a) the  Charterer  has not  committed a breach of the Charter
        which would entitle the Owner to terminate the Charter  (including,  but
        not  limited to, a failure to pay  charterhire  in  accordance  with the
        Charter) or (b) the Charterer has not committed a breach of this Deed or
        (c) the  Charterer has not committed a breach of any of the terms of the
        co-ordination  deed dated  March 2006 made  between,  inter  alios,  the
        Charterer  and  the  Mortgagee  (the  "Co-ordination  Deed")  or (d) the
        Charterer has not failed to pay any  charterhire in accordance  with the
        terms of a notice (the "Notice") received by the Owner under the Charter
        Assignment  or (e) the Charter  Guarantor  has not committed a breach of
        this  Deed,  the  Mortgagee  agrees  that it will not take any action as
        mortgagee  against the Ship under (i) the Loan Agreement and (ii) any of
        the other  Security  Documents,  which  action  would have the effect of
        interfering  with the  Charterer's  quiet enjoyment of the Ship PROVIDED
        ALWAYS THAT:

        16.2.1  nothing in this clause 16 shall prevent the Mortgagee and/or the
                other Creditors from exercising any of their  respective  rights
                under  the  Loan   Agreement   and/or  the  Security   Documents
                (including without  limitation,  rights thereunder to foreclose,
                take  possession  of and sell the  Ship)  if  those  rights  are
                exercised in such a way as to enable the Ship to be available to
                the Charterer during the Charter Period; and

        16.2.2  nothing in this clause 16 shall prevent the Mortgagee and/or the
                other  Creditors  from  joining or  intervening  in or otherwise
                supporting  any  proceedings  arising  from or  relating  to the
                arrest or  detention of the Ship by any other person with a view
                to substantiating, preserving or protecting the Mortgagee and/or
                the  other  Creditors'  interest  in the  Ship as  mortgagee  or
                otherwise.

16.3    Termination  by  Mortgagee  On the  occurrence  of:  16.3.1  an Event of
        Default; and

        16.3.2  if any event or  circumstance  shall have occurred  which would,
                under the terms of the  Charter,  entitle the Owner to terminate
                the Charter; or

        16.3.3  if the Charterer  shall be in default of any of its  obligations
                under this Deed;

        16.3.4  if the  Charterer  is in  breach  of any  of  the  terms  of the
                Co-ordination Deed;

        16.3.5  if the Charterer  shall be in breach of the terms of the Notice;
                or

        16.3.6  if the Charter  Guarantor shall be in default of its obligations
                under this Deed,

                the  Mortgagee  shall be  entitled to  terminate  the Charter by
                notice  to the  Owner  and the  Charterer,  which  notice  shall
                operate to terminate  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 notice to  determine  was
                given and upon any  termination of the Charter  pursuant to this
                clause 16.3:

                (a)     all obligations whatsoever of the Owner thereunder shall
                        be absolutely discharged and extinguished;

                (b)     if the  Charterer  shall,  at any  time  prior  to  such
                        termination,  have  been in  repudiatory  breach  of the
                        terms of the Charter,  such termination 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 (as such
                        right has been  assigned to the Mortgagee by the Charter
                        Assignment) shall be fully preserved; and

                (c)     the  Charterer  shall cease to be in  possession  of the
                        Ship with the  consent of the Owner (or with the consent
                        of the  Mortgagee  as the  Owner's  assignee)  and shall
                        forthwith  vacate  possession  of the Ship in an orderly
                        fashion,  Provided  that such  vacating of possession of
                        the Ship by the Charterer shall not of itself constitute
                        the Mortgagee a mortgagee-in-possession of the Ship.

16.4    Preservation of Owner's rights

        If the  circumstances  in which the  Mortgagee  becomes  entitled  under
        clauses  16.2 or 16.3 to  determine  the  Charter  shall  constitute  or
        include  grounds on which the Owner was entitled to determine  the same,
        any  determination by the Mortgagee  shal;.(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.

16.5    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:

        16.5.1  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;

        16.5.2  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

        16.5.3  all expenses  whatsoever  incurred by the  Mortgagee in or about
                such  remedial  measures  as may  be  undertaken  on its  behalf
                pursuant to clause 16.5.2 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.

16.6    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.

16.7    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.

16.8    Sale free of Charter

        Without  prejudice to clauses 16.2 and 16.3, 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 irstalments of charterhire
        snail  become due and payable on any date after the earlier of the expii
        y of the period for the  prepayment of the Loan  specified in clause 4.3
        of the Loan Agreement or the date upon which the Loan is prepaid in full
        in accordance with clauses 4.3 and 4.5 of the Loan 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 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  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 V&P Law
                        Firm 61-65
                        Filonos Street
                        185 35 Piraeus
                        Greece

                        Fax no: 30 210 413 5505
                        Attention: Ms Aleka Tatagia

                (b)     to the Charterer at:

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

                        Fax no:      + 30 210 6978
                        107 Attention: Legal Department

                (c)     to the Mortgagee at:

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

                        Fax no:     +31 10 401 2353
                        Attention:  Mr Tom van Vonderen

                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 Charter
                Guarantor  and the  Charterer  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
                Charter  Guarantor  and  the  Charterer  irrevocably  designate,
                appoint and empower Atlas  Maritime  Services Ltd. at present of
                Enterprise  House,  113-115 George Lane, London E18 1AB, England
                (in the case of the  Owner)  and Top  Tankers  (UK)  Limited  at
                present of 50 Park Street,  London W1K 2JJ,  United  Kingdom (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  and/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

        Save for clauses  5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 (which can be enforced by the Secured
        Creditors  although they are not a party to this Deed),  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 [o] 2006,  STARCRAFT MARINE CO. of Trust
        Company  Complex,  Ajeltake  Road,  Ajeltake  Island,  Majuro,  Marshall
        Islands  MH96960  (the  "Owner") and by a  Quadripartite  Deed dated [.]
        2006,  GRAMOS SHIPPING COMPANY INC. of Trust Company  Complex,  Ajeltake
        Road,   Ajeltake   Island,   Majuro,   Marshall   Islands  MH96960  (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 Secured Creditors as
        therein  defined  (the  "Secured  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.
        Faithful 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  Secured
                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  Secured  Creditors)  or to
                its order.

(2)     Protection and indemnity

        Payment of any recovery  which  STARCRAFT  MARINE CO., of Trust  Company
        Complex,  Ajeltake  Road,  Ajeltake  Island,  Majuro,  Marshall  Islands
        MH96960 (the "Owner") or GRAMOS  SHIPPING  COMPANY INC. of Trust Company
        Complex,  Ajeltake  Road,  Ajeltake  Island,  Majuro,  Marshall  Islands
        MH96960  (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.
<PAGE>

                                   Schedule 2
                  Forms of Notices of Assignment of Insurances

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

STARCRAFT  MARINE CO. (the "Owner") of Trust  Company  Complex,  Ajeltake  Road,
Ajeltake  Island,  Majuro,  Marshall Islands MH96960 and GRAMOS SHIPPING COMPANY
INC. (the "Charterer') of Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island,
Majuro,  Marshall Islands MH96960, the owners and demise charterers respectively
of the motor  vessel  Faithful  HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that by a General  Assignment
dated [o] 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
Secured  Creditors  as  therein  defined  (the  "Secured  Creditors"))  and by a
Quadripartite  Deed  dated  [s]  2006 and  entered  into by,  inter  alios,  the
Charterer and the Owner with the  Mortgagee  (as security  agent and trustee for
and on behalf of the Secured  Creditors),  there has been  assigned by us to the
Mortgagee  (as  security  agent and  trustee  for and on  behalf of the  Secured
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
STARCRAFT MARINE CO.

Dated [o] 2006

------------------------------
Signed
For and on behalf of
GRAMOS SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

Dated [o] 2006
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EXECUTED as a DEED
by DIMITRI GIOMELAKIS                           /s/ Dimitri Giomelakis
for and on behalf of                            -------------------------
STARCRAFT MARINE CO.

/s/ Helen Dawson
-----------------------------
in the presence of:

Witness   Helen Dawson
Name:     Trainee Solicitor
Address:  Norton Rose
Occupation:

EXECUTED as a DEED
by  Andreas Loucas                              /s/ Andreas Loucas
for and on behalf of                            -------------------------
GRAMOS SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

/s/ Helen Dawson
-----------------------------
in the presence of:

Witness   Helen Dawson
Name:     Trainee Solicitor
Address:  Norton Rose
Occupation:

EXECUTED as a DEED
by Andreas Loucas                               /s/ Andreas Loucas
for and on behalf of                            -------------------------
TOP TANKERS INC.

/s/ Helen Dawson
-----------------------------
in the presence of:

Witness   Helen Dawson
Name:     Trainee Solicitor
Address:  Norton Rose
Occupation:

EXECUTED as a DEED
by Helen Dawson                                 /s/ Helen Dawson
FORTIS BANK (NEDERLAND) N.V.                    -------------------------

/s/ Vikki Madia
------------------------------
in the presence of:

Witness   Vikki Madia
Name:     Norton Rose
Address:  Piraeus
Occupation:

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