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Name: GYDA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/09/1890
Completed: 11/1890
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 26
Dimensions: 1230grt, 738nrt, 230.8 x 33.1 x 15.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (17, 28 & 46 x 30ins), 116nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
11/1890 Harald Isachsen, Grimstad
1893 A/S D/S Gyda (H Isachsen), Grimstad
1912 A/S Baltic (Anders Isachsen), Grimstad
1915 D/S A/S Bors (H Hanssen), Skien; renamed BORS
1916 D/S A/S Rap (Louis Poulsen), Christiania
1917 Renamed ENER
1927 “Jura” Shipping Co (Fr Karklins), Ventspils; renamed SAULE
07/1940 Government of the USSR
11/1944 Broken up
Comments: 1917: Registers list the change of name to ENER but revert back to BORS
three years later without then mentioning ENER as a former name.
This probably means that the intended name change did not happen.
07/1940: Seized by the USSR forces
29/08/1941: Damaged and beached after a German air attack near
Suursaari Island in the Gulf of Finland.
11/1944: Towed to Tallinn after being refloated, and later broken up


Above photo as GYDA is copyright of the Aust-Agder Museum, Hekkvn Johnsen Collection