| Name: | RABENFELS |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 05/11/1903 |
| Completed: | 12/1903 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 407 |
| Dimensions: | 4815grt, 2971nrt, 7023dwt, 390.4 x 51.5 x 27.5ft |
| Engines: | Q4cyl (23, 32, 48 & 72 x 54ins), 492nhp |
| Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a; (1915: 139031) |
| History: | |
| 12/1903 | Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen |
| 12/06/1915 | British Royal Navy; renamed RAVEN II |
| 1917 | The Admiralty (Grahams & Co, managers); renamed RAVENROCK |
| 1923 | British Dominion Steamship Co Ltd, London |
| 1924 | Karafuto Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo; renamed HEIYEI MARU No 7 |
| 1934 | Inui Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo |
| 1940 | Renamed KENEI MARU |
| 12/01/1945 | Sank |
| Comments: | Laid down by Wigham Richardson & Co Ltd |
| Contract Price £63519; Profit £2731-4s-11d | |
| 1914: Seized by the UK Government whilst at Port Said | |
| Used as a seaplane carrier in the eastern Mediterranean | |
| 12/06/1915: Commissioned into the British Royal Navy as HMS RAVEN II | |
| Armed with a 12 pdr gun and carried up to 6 x seaplanes | |
| 01/09/1916: Bombed & damaged by a German aircraft at Port Said. Subsequently repaired | |
| 1917: Reclassified as a collier | |
| 12/01/1945: Bombed & sunk in the South China Sea |
Above photo as RAVEN II is copyright of Peter Kiehlmann
Above photo as RAVENROCK is copyright of the Collection Stad Antwerpen, MAS. Photographer Louis CLAES.
CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return. Image courtesy of Urbain Ureel.
Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 16/12/1903