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Name: RANVIK
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/12/1911
Completed: 03/1912
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 838
Dimensions: 5848grt, 3332nrt, 445.5 x 57.7 x 24.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 75 x 48ins), 390nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1912 A/S D/S Ranvik (PA Grøn), Sandefjord
1915 A/S D/S Produce (H Kiaer & Co A/S), Drammen
1916 A/S Atlantis (Bernhard Hanssen), Flekkefjord
10/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 10/04/1917: Captured, torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC71, 45 miles WSW of Ouessant
On a voyage from Buenos Aires to Cherbourg with a cargo of wheat


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