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Name: BARMEN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/09/1889
Completed: 09/11/1889
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 552
Dimensions: 2614grt, 1704nrt, 310.0 x 39.0 x 23.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 39ins), 278nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots (trials)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1919: 143152)
History:
11/1889 Deutsch-Australische Dampfs Ges, Hamburg
1894 Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg; renamed BOLIVIA
1917 Vereinigte Bugsir-u Fracht Schiffs Ges, Hamburg; renamed SCHWINGE
22/04/1919 The Shipping Controller (James Gardner & Co), London
1922 Bugsier Reed & Bergungs AG, Hamburg; renamed EMS
1924 Broken up
Comments: 1914: Requisitioned by the Imperial German Navy as SPERRBRECHER 6
1914: Renamed SPERRBRECHER 3
2Q/1924: Broken up at Lubeck by Schiffsverwertungs


Jarrow Express, Friday, 27/09/1889