Tannenfels 1898

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Name:	TANNENFELS
Type:	Cargo Ship
Launched:	27/09/1897
Completed:	23/03/1898
Builder:	Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard:	Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number:	336
Dimensions:	5480grt, 3564nrt, 7976dwt, 418.0 x 54.0 x 20.1ft
Engines:	Q4cyl (24, 34, 51 & 74 x 54ins), 494nhp
Engines by:	Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 11.4knots (trials)
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	n/a; (1915: 137678)
History:
23/03/1898	Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Hansa", Bremen
08/10/1914	The Admiralty, London; renamed BASILAN
03/02/1915	Registered at Hong Kong
1915	Renamed HUNSLET
19/07/1915	The Shipping Controller, London
1916	Oceanic Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Hong Kong
1917	UK Shipping Controller, Hong Kong
1921	Woermann Line, Hamburg; renamed WAGANDA
1933	Broken up

Comments:	Contract Price £61943; Profit £4025-10s-4d
	Broke the shaft in her stern tube and was found, disabled and adrift, in danger of stranding on the Maldive Islands by the KINTUCK (China Mutual SN). The TANNENFELS was towed 620 miles to Colombo.
	At the inquiry it was decided that the ship and cargo were worth £136,932 and the master of the KINTUCK was awarded £6500 salvage money.
	08/1914: Converted for use as an auxiliary for the Kriegsmarine
	14/09/1914: Captured by HMS CHELMER in the Basilan Strait, Phillipine Islands
	08/10/1914: Requisitioned by The Admiralty
	19/07/1915: Used as a Military Hospital Ship
	02/1916: Used for trooping & military cargoes
	2Q:1933: Broken up at Hamburg by Deutsche Werft