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Name: ELBERFELD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/05/1889
Completed: 06/1889
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 551
Dimensions: 2630grt, 1697nrt, 310.0 x 39.0 x 23.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 39ins), 285nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
06/1889 Deutsch-Australische Dampfs Ges, Hamburg
1894 Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg; renamed HERCYNIA
09/1905 Imperial Russian Navy; renamed LAKHTA
12/04/1918 White Finnish Forces
1918 Government of Finland
11/1922 Soviet Union, Odessa
1924 A/O 'Sovtorgflot', Odessa
1935 Broken up
Comments: 09/1905: Converted for use as a transport and hospital ship
12/04/1918: Taken over by pro-conservative White Finns at Helsingfors
1928: School ship at Odessa, withdrawn 1934
1935: Broken up


Above photo of LAKHTA, as a hospital ship during WW1, courtesy of Michael Urvantsev