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Name: WILLKOMMEN
Type: Tanker
Launched: 28/05/1887
Completed: 09/1887
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 502
Dimensions: 3140grt, 1999nrt, 315.0 x 41.2 x 23.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (30, 37 & 72 x 48ins), 359nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
09/1887 WA Riedemann & AN Schutte & Sohn, Geestemünde
1890 Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ges, Geestemünde
12/10/1915 Beached
Comments: 1914: Requisitioned by the German Navy as a bunkership for submarines
12/10/1915: Damaged by Russian mine in the Jade Estuary at 53.47N - 08/02E
while on a voyage from Wilhelmshaven to Pillau. Beached to avoid sinking.
Abandoned as a total loss


Above photo copyright of Auke Visser