Name: | GYDA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/09/1890 |
Completed: | 11/1890 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 26 |
Dimensions: | 1230grt, 738nrt, 230.8 x 33.1 x 15.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (17, 28 & 46 x 30ins), 116nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
11/1890 | Harald Isachsen, Grimstad |
1893 | A/S D/S Gyda (H Isachsen), Grimstad |
1912 | A/S Baltic (Anders Isachsen), Grimstad |
1915 | D/S A/S Bors (H Hanssen), Skien; renamed BORS |
1916 | D/S A/S Rap (Louis Poulsen), Christiania |
1917 | Renamed ENER |
1927 | “Jura” Shipping Co (Fr Karklins), Ventspils; renamed SAULE |
07/1940 | Government of the USSR |
11/1944 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1917: Registers list the change of name to ENER but revert back to BORS |
three years later without then mentioning ENER as a former name. | |
This probably means that the intended name change did not happen. | |
07/1940: Seized by the USSR forces | |
29/08/1941: Damaged and beached after a German air attack near | |
Suursaari Island in the Gulf of Finland. | |
11/1944: Towed to Tallinn after being refloated, and later broken up |
Above photo as GYDA is copyright of the Aust-Agder Museum, Hekkvn Johnsen Collection