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Name: ASBORG
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/12/1920
Completed: 03/1921
Builder: Eltringham's Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 345
Dimensions: 2344grt, 1410nrt, 290.4 x 44.0 x 20.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 34.5 & 57 x 39ins), 208nhp
Engines by: Eltringham's Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
03/1921 A/S Vesterhav (KM Pedersen, manager), Kristiansand, Norway
1930 A/S Speed (AT Simonsen, manager), Oslo; renamed SPEED
1933 D/S A/S Ramo (Ralf Ursin-Smith, manager), Oslo; renamed RAMO
21/04/1946 Sank
Comments: 21/04/1946: Mined & sunk alongside at Hehningsvaer, Lofoten Islands


Above photo as ASBORG copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Per-Erik Johnsen Collection