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Name: SANDYSIKE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/06/1922
Completed: 09/1922
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 223
Dimensions: 1694grt, 993nrt, 260.2 x 37.7 x 16.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 208nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 145497
History:
02/09/1922 Sharp Steamship Co Ltd (Sharp & Co), Newcastle
1935 Rederi A/B Sylvia (Alb Billner), Gothenburg; renamed ALBERT
1940 Deutsches Reich (HW Christophersen), Flensburg
1940 Renamed DORA CHRISTOPHERSEN
1946 Billners Rederi A/B (Alb Billner), Gothenburg; renamed ALBERT
1953 Young Poong Shipping Corp, Inchon; renamed CHANCE
1955 Eon Corporation, Pusan
1963 Cho Yang Shipping Co Ltd, Pusan
1970 Broken up
Comments: 10/04/1940: Detained at Bergen
05/1940: Seized by the Government of Germany
05/1970: Broken up at Inchon


Above photo as ALBERT is copyright of Alex Duncan

Above photo as ALBERT is copyright of Repro

Above photo as ALBERT is copyright of Okand fotograf