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: | 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: | Launched by Wigham Richardson |
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: Damaged by a bomb from a German aircraft at Port Said. Repaired | |
1917: Reclassified as a collier | |
12/01/1945: Bombed & sunk in the South China Sea |
Above photo as RAVEN II copyright of Peter Kiehlmann