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Name: FROGNER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 12/04/1921
Completed: 10/1921
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 966
Dimensions: 5301grt, 3323nrt, 407.1 x 53.8 x 27.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 74 x 51ins), 548nhp
Engines by: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Elswick
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
10/1921 D/S A/S Aker (Fearnley & Eger), Christiania
1927 Ybarra y Cia, Sevilla; renamed CABO MAYOR
1932 Cia Espaņola de Nav Maritima SA, Sevilla (Garcia y Diaz, New York)
1932 Renamed NAVEMAR
23/01/1942 Sank
Comments: 10/1936: Laid up at New York until the end of the Spanish Civil War
23/01/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by Italian submarine BARBARIGO, 370miles SW of Lisbon
On a voyage from New York to Cadiz & Sevilla carrying produce & general cargo