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Name: FRIEDERIKE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 31/08/1905
Completed: 09/1905
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 155
Dimensions: 3574grt, 2297nrt, 350.0 x 49.5 x 23.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (24.5, 41 & 67 x 45ins), 322nhp
Engines by: J Dickinson & Sons Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 119802
History:
09/1905 Rahtkens Shipping Co Ltd (F Rahtkens & Co, managers), Middlesbrough
1915 Imperial Russian Navy
21/06/1918 Sank
Comments: 1914: Caught in the Black Sea on outbreak of war
Siezed by the Imperial Russian Navy and operated as transport N101
Damaged by gunfire from Turkish warships at Novorossisk along with
five Russian merchantmen
21/06/1918: Sunk by scuttling at Novorossisk