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Name: JEANNE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/05/1904
Completed: 06/1904
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 119
Dimensions: 1171grt, 720nrt, 232.0 x 35.0 x 16.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (17.5, 29 & 48 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
06/1904 A/S D/S Heimdal (Martin Carl), Copenhagen
05/09/1916 Sank
Comments: 05/09/1916: Captured & torpedoed by U-Boat U29, 16 miles NE of the Casquets
On voyage from Oran to Leith with a cargo of esparto grass


Above photo is copyright of the Museet for Søfart

Above photo courtesy of Richard Cox

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 20/05/1904