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Name: NORDPOL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/05/1899
Completed: 07/1899
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 77
Dimensions: 3715grt, 2428nrt, 340.0 x 48.0 x 25.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 304nhp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons Ltd, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
07/1899 Harloff & Boe, Bergen
1907 Harloff & Rodseth, Bergen
1915 D/S A/S Hafa (W Gorrissen), Christiania; renamed ETNA
1915 A/S Klosters Rederi (Lauritz Kloster), Stavanger; renamed CASSIOPEIA
1915 A/S D/S Atlanterhavet (OJ Eskildsen), Copenhagen; renamed ETNA
1916 D/S A/S Vilhelm Krag (H Bjering), Bergen; renamed VILHELM KRAG
1917 Otto Andersen, Bergen
24/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 1917: The sale was not entered in the register prior to loss
24/04/1917: Sank after being captured and shelled by U-Boat U35 when
5 miles W by S of Piedale LH near Lagos on a voyage from Genoa to Barry