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Name: SELJE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/12/1929
Completed: 04/1930
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 995
Dimensions: 6732grt, 3906nrt, 448.3 x 59.2 x 27.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (28.5, 47 & 78 x 51ins), 409nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1932: 162698)
History:
04/1930 A/S D/S Selje (A/S Rederiet Odfjell), Bergen
11/04/1932 Tenax Steamship Co Ltd (Wm M Young), London
1935 Skibs A/S Selje (A/S Rederiet Odfjell), Bergen
15/05/1942 Sank
Comments: 15/05/1942: Sank in Allied air strike off the northern Dutch coast
On a voyage from Rotterdam to Norway with a cargo of coal & coke


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