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Name: ROMSDAL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/10/1901
Completed: 12/1901
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 103
Dimensions: 1869grt, 1177nrt, 280.0 x 39.6 x 18.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 34 & 56 x 36ins), 188nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
12/1901 A/S D/S Romsdal (GC Volckmar), Kristiansand
1906 A/S Hugin (Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co), Drammen; renamed HUGIN
1910 Bruusgaard, Kiøsteruds D/S A/S, Drammen
1915 A/S D/S Dorte Jensen (A Jensen), Copenhagen; renamed DORTE JENSEN
1916 D/S Hamlet A/S (Hakon Thomsen), Copenhagen
18/06/1917 Sank
Comments: 18/06/1917: Mined & sunk in the North Sea at 51.29N – 01.23E
On a voyage from Tyne Dock to Rouen with a cargo of coal