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Name: NORFOLK RANGE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/10/1917
Completed: 01/1918
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 243
Dimensions: 5120grt, 3249nrt, 375.2 x 51.2 x 31.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 69 x 48ins), 367nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 140558
History:
24/01/1918 Neptune Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Furness, Withy & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1924 Stockholms Rederi A/B Svea, Stockholm; renamed SVEADROTT
29/11/1924 Wrecked
Comments: 29/11/1924: Wrecked on Kungshallgrund near Oxelösund
On a voyage from Montreal to Stockholm with a cargo of grain
After part later refloated and broken up at Holtenau


Above photo as SVEADROTT is copyright of Lennart Falleth

Above photo as SVEADROTT is copyright of Lennart Falleth