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Name: ENERGIE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 12/03/1887
Completed: 04/1887
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 503
Dimensions: 640grt, 452nrt, 200.0 x 30.1 x 11.1ft; (1896: 740grt, 235.0ft)
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (10.5, 17 & 28 x 20ins), 85nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
04/1887 Badische Schraubendampfschiffs Ges, Köln
1889 Rhein & See Schiffahrts Ges, Köln
23/02/1916 Government of Portugal
1916 Transportes Maritimos do Estado, Lisbon; renamed ESPINHO
15/06/1917 Sank
Comments: 1896: Lengthened to 235.0ft, then 740grt
08/1914: Laid up a Lisbon
23/02/1916: Seized by Portuguese Government
15/06/1917: Sank after being captured and shelled by U-Boat U39 off the
Algarve coast on a voyage from Casablanca to Bordeaux with horses & pigs