Name: | GOTHIC PRINCE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 23/05/1918 |
Completed: | 08/1918 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 864 |
Dimensions: | 8600grt, 5299nrt, 448.1 x 57.2 x 39.2ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (25.5, 36.5, 52.5 & 76 x 54ins), 667nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 140719 |
History: | |
30/07/1918 | Prince Line Ltd (Furness, Withy & Co Ltd), Newcastle |
1927 | Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen; renamed SONNENFELS |
09/1938 | Hamburg-Sudamerika Dampfs Ges, Hamburg |
02/01/1939 | Renamed BAHIA CAMARONES |
01/09/1939 | Kriegsmarine; renamed SPERRBRECHER I |
07/1940 | Hamburg-Sudamerika Dampfs Ges, Hamburg; renamed BAHIA CAMARONES |
01/1945 | Sank |
Comments: | 1939: Requisitioned by the German Kriegsmarine |
Converted into a mine clearance vessel with buoyant material in the holds | |
07/1940: Returned to owners | |
11/01/1945: On fire after being shelled by HMS NORFOLK, ONSLOW, ORWELL and | |
ONSLAUGHT near Egerøy, 58.23N - 06.03E. Deliberately put aground | |
01/1945: Sank after slipping into deeper water |
Above photo as GOTHIC PRINCE is copyright of the World Ship Photo Society
Above photo as BAHIA CAMARONES is copyright of Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunze
Above photo as BAHIA CAMARONES is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as BAHIA CAMARONES is copyright of Wolfgang Fuchs