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Name: DORDRECHT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/07/1891
Completed: 08/1891
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 32
Dimensions: 1798grt, 1337nrt, 274.5 x 37.2 x 17.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (21.75, 34 & 56 x 39ins), 194nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
08/1891 Mij Stoomschip “Dordrecht” (Phs van Ommeren), Rotterdam
1898 Björneborgs Angfartygs A/B (O Heine), Björneborg; renamed ILMARI
1911 Rederi A/B Philis (R Philis), Helsingborg; renamed PORTOS
1916 A/B Nordiska Lloyd (H Modin), Stockholm
1919 Rederi A/B H Modin, Stockholm
1922 A/B Nordiska Lloyd (H Modin), Stockholm
1925 BA Broman (H Modin), Sundsvall
1930 Torsten H’son Regenander, Sundsvall
1937 A Laane, F Baltser & J Petermann, Parnu; renamed LEENI
1940 USSR – Estonian Shipping Co
21/08/1941 Sank
Comments: 06/1940: Seized by USSR after invasion of Estonia
21/08/1941: Mined & sunk in the Gulf of Finland at 59.49N 25.29E
When carrying evacuees from Tallinn to Kronstadt


Photo courtesy of Reinier van de Wetering

Photo as PORTOS copyright of Robert Bomans Collection