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Name: GERD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/02/1903
Completed: 03/1903
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 110
Dimensions: 1203grt, 750nrt, 237.0 x 35.2 x 16.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 146nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
03/1903 A/S Quarta (Johs Bull), Tønsberg
1910 A/S Atlas (P Johannessen), Tønsberg
1915 SL Christie, Bergen
1916 D/S A/S Haraldshaug (Lars Meland Rederi), Haugesund
1916 Renamed HARALDSHAUG
1919 Jens J Salvesens Rederi, Christiania; renamed FREIDIG
1929 Einar Langes Rederi A/S, Oslo; renamed MELSOMVIK
1933 Rederi A/S Mesna (Einar Lange), Oslo; renamed MESNA
1934 Manager Knut Simonsen
1937 Skibs A/S Freidig (OM Olsen & A Naess), Fredrikstad; renamed FREIDIG
1940 A/S Rona (Trygve Skogland), Haugesund
07/02/1944 Sank
Comments: 07/02/1944: Foundered near Staithie Point after her cargo shifted
On a voyage from Aberdeen to Liverpool with a cargo of rye


Above image as HARALDSHAUG courtesy of LM Bjørkelund & EH Kongshavn

Above photo as MELSOMVIK courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 28/02/1903