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Name: ROSEBUD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 12/06/1883
Completed: 1883
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 76
Dimensions: 1140grt, 623nrt, 230.5 x 32.1 x 15.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (28 & 54 x 36ins), 140nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 87483
History:
1883 P Rowe & Sons, Cardiff
1896 A/S Spind (Hj Siegwarth), Christiania; renamed SPIND
1912 A/S Spind (T Thoresen Jr), Christiania; renamed TISTEFOS
1912 A/S Import (E Stensrud), Skien; renamed EXPORT
1915 A/S Kolbein (Hans Baarud), Christiania
1915 D/S A/S Frisk (H Boe), Christiania; renamed FRISK
20/03/1917 Sank
Comments: 20/03/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UC50 in the North Sea at 56.20N 01.50E
On a voyage from Warkworth to Fredrikstad with a cargo of coal