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Name: TANCRED
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/09/1902
Completed: 10/1902
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 140
Dimensions: 3474grt, 2231nrt, 334.0 x 48.0 x 24.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 292nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
10/1902 I/S A/S Tancred’s Rederi (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1913 Wilhelmsens D/S (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1918 A/S Tancred (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1922 Emil R Retzlaff, Stettin; renamed HAGEN
1924 AG für Handel u Verkehr (Lexzau, Scharbau & Co), Emden
1924 Renamed HERTA ENGELINE FRITZEN
1Q/1934 Broken up
Comments: 1Q/1934: Broken up at Vegesack by Bremer Vulkan AG


Above photo as TANCRED copyright of Fritzen Archives

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 05/09/1902