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