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