Tricolor 1906

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

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Name:	TRICOLOR
Type:	Cargo Ship
Launched:	24/03/1906
Completed:	16/05/1906
Builder:	Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard:	Willington Quay
Yard Number:	158
Dimensions:	4019grt, 2528nrt, 351.2 x 50.1 x 25.7ft
Engines:	T3cyl (26, 42.5 & 69.5 x 45ins), 368nhp
Engines by:	Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	n/a
History:
05/1906	I/S D/S Tricolor’s Rederi (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1913	Wilhelmsens D/S A/S, Tønsberg
1925	Emder Dampferkompagnie AG (Wilh Nübel), Emden
1925	Renamed WITTEKIND
14/01/1944	Sank

Comments:	11/1939: Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine as a collier
	14/01/1944: Sank in a British air strike off Lister
	On a voyage from Narvik to Germany