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Name: WAR COVE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/04/1919
Completed: 06/1919
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 216
Dimensions: 3077grt, 1852nrt, 331.4 x 46.8 x 23.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 429nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 143227
History:
06/1919 The Shipping Controller, London
1919 A/S Theologos (N Røgenaes), Haugesund; renamed ANNA SOFIE
23/02/1944 Sank
Comments: 23/02/1944: Sank after stranding and exploding off Haugesund
On a voyage from Thamshavn to Germany with a cargo of pyrites


Above photo as ANNA SOFIE copyright of the Bangsbo Museum