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Name: SANDEFJORD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/01/1911
Completed: 03/1911
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 825
Dimensions: 6026grt, 3569nrt, 440.0 x 58.1 x 24.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (28.5, 47 & 78 x 54ins), 447nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1911 A/S D/S Sandefjord (PA Grøn), Sandefjord
1915 Managers became Christensen & Stenseth
1916 D/S A/S Corona (HM Wrangell & Co A/S), Haugesund
1920 Renamed HAUGARLAND
11/06/1942 Sank
Comments: 11/06/1942: Sunk by a mine near the Ammerland Lighthouse, Netherlands
On a voyage from Rotterdam to Horten with a cargo of coal & coke


Above photo as SANDEFJORD is courtesy of Tormod Ringdal

Above photo as HAUGARLAND is courtesy of Photoship

Newcastle Journal, Tuesday, 31/01/1911