Name: | WEISSENFELS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/04/1899 |
Completed: | 07/06/1899 |
Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 357 |
Dimensions: | 3926grt, 2522nrt, 5909dwt, 358.0 x 46.1 x 19.5ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (23, 31.5, 48 & 71 x 54ins), 418nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.5knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1919: 143198) |
History: | |
07/06/1899 | Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen |
03/1914 | D Fuhrmann, Nissle & Gunther Nachf, Hamburg; renamed WEISSENFELDE |
1919 | The Shipping Controller (H Hogarth & Sons, managers), London |
1920 | SA Asmar, Belgium |
1922 | Ch De Cort & F Verschueren, Belgium |
1922 | W Schuchmann, Geestemunde; renamed OSTEE |
11/10/1927 | Broken up |
Comments: | Contract Price £56180; Profit £5765-13s-9d |
1919: Allocated to the UK as part of War Reparations | |
1920: Re-allocated to the Government of Belgium | |
21/05/1927: Stranded at Point Cires, Gibraltar | |
On a voyage from Rotterdam to Venice with a cargo of coal | |
Subsequently refloated | |
11/10/1927: Broken up at Bilbao |
Above photo as WEISSENFELS copyright of Peter Kiehlmann
Above photo as WEISSENFELS copyright of Staatsarchiv Bremen
Above photo as OSTSEE copyright M Lindenborn