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Name: STAHLECK
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/03/1902
Completed: 12/05/1902
Builder: Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 389
Dimensions: 1127grt, 600nrt, 1533dwt, 270.4 x 36.0 x 19.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 31 & 52 x 39ins), 190nhp
Engines by: Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.9knots (trials)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
12/05/1902 Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen
12/1915 Imperial Russian Navy; renamed PECHORA
1918 Government of the USSR
1923 Government of the USSR (Baltic SS Co), Leningrad; renamed GARIBALDI
1924 Renamed GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI
1927 Broken up
Comments: Contract Price £24905; Profit £1726-5s-3d
20/10/1915: Captured by Russian submarine KAIMAN in the Gulf of Bothnia
Taken to Helsingfors
31/10/1926: Beached after a collision with VOGTLAND off Blankenese
On a voyage from Leningrad to Hamburg with general cargo
01/1927: Salvaged by Bugsier, towed into Hamburg & broken up


Above photo as STAHLECK copyright of Hans-Jurgen Mayburg

Above photo as GARIBALDI copyright of Hans-Jurgen Mayburg

Above: GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI being refloated. Courtesy of Wolfgang Kramer