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Name: RHEINFELS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/06/1905
Completed: 07/1905
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 732
Dimensions: 5679grt, 3604nrt, 422.0 x 55.3 x 20.4ft
Engines: Q4cyl (24, 34, 51 & 74 x 54ins), 500nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1914: 139044)
History:
07/1905 Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen
1914 The Admiralty (Grahams & Co, managers)
1920 Government of India
1923 Turnbull Scott Shipping Co Ltd, London; renamed BAXTERGATE
21/09/1933 Broken up
Comments: 01/08/1914: Arrested in Bombay & requisitioned by the UK Government
21/09/1933: Broken up by R Smith & Co at Port Glasgow


Above photo as RHEINFELS is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as RHEINFELS is copyright of Hans-Jurgen Mayburg