Sir Ernest Cassel 1910

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Name:	SIR ERNEST CASSEL
Type:	Bulk Carrier
Launched:	23/04/1910
Completed:	07/1910
Builder:	R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard:	Hebburn
Yard Number:	433
Dimensions:	7727grt, 3312nrt, 454.4 x 60.3 x 32.3ft
Engines:	T3cyl (27, 45 & 74 x 54ins), 402nhp
Engines by:	North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	n/a
History:
07/1910	Rederi A/B Luleå-Ofoten (PA Welin), Stockholm
1916	Trafik A/B Grängesberg-Oxelösund (PA Welin), Stockholm
1921	Aug Bolten, Wm Miller's Nachfl, Hamburg; renamed ERNEST
1922	Trafik A/B Grängesberg-Oxelösund, Stockholm
1922	Renamed SIR ERNEST CASSEL
16/04/1941	Sank

Comments:	16/04/1941: Sank 500 miles west of the Azores after being captured
	and then shelled by German Auxiliary Cruiser THOR
	On a voyage from Glasgow to Lourenço Marques in ballast