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Name: SHEARWATER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/04/1888
Completed: 07/1888
Builder: HS Edwards & Sons
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 40
Dimensions: 967grt, 581nrt, 214.0 x 31.2 x 13.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (16, 26.5 & 44 x 33ins), 108nhp
Engines by: E Scott & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95245
History:
1888 Sharp & Co, Newcastle
1897 E Tinel, Le Havre; renamed PIERRE ANDRÉ
1900 A/S Kulkompagniet af 1871 (E Hougland), Bergen; renamed BJØRN
1912 RM Peterson, Christiania
1914 A/S Jelølinjen (R Peterson), Christiania
1915 A/S Grenland (H Haraldsen), Skien; renamed GRENLAND
1916 Government of Germany
1923 Emil R Retzlaff, Stettin; renamed FLOSSHILDE
1931 W Schmidt (Notraco GmbH), Stettin; renamed NOTRACO I
1932 Rederi & Speditions A/B Nordstjernan, Helsingfors; renamed NOTRACO
06/01/1940 Wrecked
Comments: 17/12/1915; Captured by SMS V43 north of Skagen on a voyage from
Gothenburg to Hull and subsequently condemned by a prize court
1916: Used by the German Government as an army transport
06/01/1940: Wrecked outside Torhamn
On a voyage from Helsingfors to Gothenburg with a cargo of wood pulp