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Name: BALTIC
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/06/1905
Completed: 07/1905
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 401
Dimensions: 3294grt, 2151nrt, 340.0 x 49.0 x 22.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 66 x 48ins), 333nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1931: 162354)
History:
07/1905 Rederi A/B Transatlantic (WR Lundgren), Gothenburg
1915 Manager G Carlsson
1928 Rederi A/B Bore (GE Sandström), Gothenburg
1931 United Africa Company Ltd, Liverpool; renamed KUMASIAN
08/1935 Broken up
Comments: 18/08/1935: Arrived at La Spezia for breaking up


Above photo as BALTIC is courtesy of Bernt Andersson