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Name: CHANCELLOR launched as CUNDALL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/05/1891
Completed: 07/1891
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 166
Dimensions: 4753grt, 2984nrt, 400.0 x 47.0 x 28.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (29, 48 & 77 x 51ins), 461nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97882
History:
07/1891 Charente Steam Ship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison), Liverpool
1901 Rob M Sloman & Co, Hamburg; renamed PALLANZA
1903 Dampfs Rhed “Union”, Hamburg
1907 Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg
1914 Imperial German Navy; Renamed SPERRBRECHER 4
11/02/1915 Sank
Comments: Launched as CUNDALL for Christopher Furness
1914: Requisitioned by the German Navy as a mine clearance vessel
11/02/1915: Sunk by a mine in the Ems estuary at 53.35N 06.37E
after running into a German minefield in fog


Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 12/05/1891