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Name: SLAVIC PRINCE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/07/1918
Completed: 10/1918
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 865
Dimensions: 8611grt, 5310nrt, 448.5 x 57.2 x 39.2ft
Engines: Q4cyl (25.5, 36.5, 52.5 & 76 x 54ins), 667nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 140720
History:
12/10/1918 Prince Line Ltd (Furness, Withy & Co Ltd), Newcastle
1926 Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen; renamed RABENFELS
1938 Hamburg-Sudamerika Dampfs Ges, Hamburg; renamed BAHIA LAURA
30/08/1941 Sank
Comments: 25/07/1918: Launched as GAELIC PRINCE
30/08/1941: Torpedoed & sunk by submarine HMS TRIDENT off
Solven Island in the Lofotens on a voyage from Tromsų to
Kirkenes with a consignment of 400 x troops


Above photo as SLAVIC PRINCE is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as RABENFELS is copyright of the Bangsbo Museum

Above photo as BAHIA LAURA is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as BAHIA LAURA is courtesy of Photoship