The 1945 Hookers Point, U.S.A., built N3-S-A2 type JOHN J.JACKSON was sold to Turkey in 1947, trading for two years as SAMSUN then renamed HOPA, operated from 1955 by D.B.Deniz Nakliyati, and then MERVE in 1969.

The owned by Manioglu Gemi Isletmeciligi ve Ticaret AS, MERVE was photographed in the Bosphorus at Istanbul on 21st December 1975.

It is reported that she was broken up at Aliaga during the first quarter of 1977.