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Name: LINDENFELS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/11/1906
Completed: 12/1906
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 768
Dimensions: 5699grt, 3677nrt, 421.9 x 55.3 x 20.3ft
Engines: Q4cyl (24, 34, 51 & 74 x 54ins), 528nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 136788
History:
12/1906 Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen
1914 The Admiralty, London
1915 Renamed KINGSMERE
1920 Secretary of State for India, London
1922 JA Cosmetto, Piraeus; renamed AGIOS IOANNIS
1928 EG Culucundis & SC Costomeni, Piraeus
1930 Atlanticos Steamship Co Ltd, Syra
4Q/1933 Broken up
Comments: 1914: Seized by the UK Government when she was off the port of Aden
4Q/1933: Broken up in Italy


Above photo as LINDENFELS is copyright of the Peabody Museum of Salem

Above photo as KINGSMERE is copyright of Ambrose Greenway