Name: | NEUENFELS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 19/04/1901 |
Completed: | 22/05/1901 |
Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 375 |
Dimensions: | 5650grt, 3651nrt, 8151dwt, 420.0 x 55.2 x 20.5ft; (1921: 10,800dwt) |
Engines: | Q4cyl (24, 34, 51 & 74 x 54ins), 494nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.1knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
22/05/1901 | Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen |
1918 | Government of Spain; renamed ESPANA NO 6 |
1921 | Spanish Navy; renamed DEDALO |
1940 | Broken up |
Comments: | Contract Price £81750; Profit £8543-3s-3d |
1914: Interned in Spain | |
1918: Allocated to Spain as war reparations | |
1921: Converted at Barcelona into a seaplane & balloon vessel for the Spanish Navy | |
Carried 2 semi-rigid airships (42 metres long), 25 aircraft & 2 dirigibles | |
Armed with 2 x 4.1ins and 2 x 1.0pdr guns | |
1925: Involved in the suppression of the "Republic of the Riff’ (Morrocco) | |
1935: Stricken and laid up at Sangunto | |
1936: Damaged by Nationalist aircraft during the Spanish Civil War | |
1940: Towed to Valencia for breaking up, but sank in the harbour due bomb damage | |
Subsequently blown up to clear the harbour |
Above photo as NEUENFELS copyright of Holger Patzer
Above photo as DEDALO copyright of Peter Kiehlmann