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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