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Name: FRITHIOF
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/06/1870
Completed: 08/1870
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 24
Dimensions: 617grt, 159.0 x 24.9 x 14.7ft; (1880: 764grt, 585nrt, 193.2 x 23.9 x 14.7ft)
Engines: C2cyl (22.5 & 43.5 x 28.5ins), 60nhp
Engines by: T Clark & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/1870 A Leffler & Co, Gothenburg
1884 Angfartygs A/B Thule, Gothenburg
1899 Handelsvereeniging, Nieuport; renamed HANDEL
04/03/1904 Sank
Comments: 1880: Rebuilt & lengthened to 193.2ft
04/03/1904: Sank about 7 miles NNW of Galloper LV in the North Sea
On a voyage from Nieuport to Felixstowe with granite paving blocks