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Name: TORDENSKJOLD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/10/1903
Completed: 11/1903
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 146
Dimensions: 3572grt, 2296nrt, 335.0 x 48.0 x 25.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 292nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
11/1903 I/S D/S Tordenskjold’s Rederi (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1919 A/S Tordenskjold (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
1922 Emil R Retzlaff, Stettin; renamed HUNDING
1924 AG für Handel u Verkehr (Lexzau, Scharbau & Co), Emden
1924 Renamed KATHARINA DOROTHEA FRITZEN
02/01/1925 Wrecked
Comments: 02/01/1925: Wrecked at Skudesnes
On a voyage from Rotterdam to Narvik in ballast.


Above photo as TORDENSKJOLD copyright of Fritzen Archives