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Name: HOLGER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/02/1906
Completed: 05/1906
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 759
Dimensions: 5555grt, 3575nrt, 425.6 x 53.1 x 29.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (28, 46 & 77 x 54ins), 556nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1921: 146217)
History:
05/1906 Roland Linie AG, Bremen
1921 Government of the UK
1921 Roland Linie AG, Bremen
1926 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen
1932 Sovtorgflot (Black Sea Shipping Co), Odessa; renamed TASHKENT
30/12/1941 Sank
Comments: 12/1914: Outfitted at Pernambuco for naval supply
20/02/1915: Interned at Buenos Aires
1921: Allocated to the UK Government as war reparations
30/12/1941: Sank during a German air attack at Feodosia