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Name: RAGNAR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/03/1906
Completed: 05/1906
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 133
Dimensions: 1216grt, 671nrt, 232.7 x 35.5 x 14.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (18, 29 & 50 x 33ins), 156nhp
Engines by: J Dickinson & Sons Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/1906 Red A/B Sigurd (OS Hedberg), Malmo
1918 Norrkopings Red A/B; renamed OSTANVIK
1932 Red A/B Magnus Stenbock, Helsingborg; renamed BERTHA
11/01/1941 Sank
Comments: 11/01/1941: Mined and sunk north of Tre Kroner in the Orseund
On voyage from Hamburg to Gothenburg with a cargo of coke


Above photo as RAGNAR is courtesy of George Robinson

Above photo as Bertha is courtesy of Richard Cox