Category:Heinrich Podeus (ship, 1922)

Ship[edit]

• Type: General cargo steamship
• Built by: N.V.Scheepswerf v/h Wed. A. van Duijvendijk, Papendrecht
• Yard No: 278
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1921.07.14
• Completed: 1922.03
• Length over all: 301.7 ft
• Beam: 45.3 ft
• GT: 2630
• DWT: 4350
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History[edit]

• 1922 Named Witte Zee; Flag: Netherlands
  • Call sign: QCRV
  • Port: Rotterdam
  • Owner: N.V. Stoomschip Witte Zee, Rotterdam
  • Manager: N.V. W. van Driel's Stoomboot- & Transportondernemingen, Rotterdam
• 1928 Renamed Heinrich Podeus; Flag: Germany
  • Call sign: MFPW
  • Port: Rostock
  • Owner: Heinrich Podeus, Rostock
• 1928.11.25 Beached near Zandvoort in a heavy storm
• 1929.08.05 Refloated
• 1932.10 Owner: Glückauf Kohlenhandels Ges. m.b.H., Rostock
  • Port: Rostock
  • Call sign: DMBA
• 1934 Owner: Hedwigshütte A.G., Hamburg
  • Port: Hamburg
• 1934.07 Renamed Ada; Flag: Danzig
  • Owner: Otto Behnke, Danzig
• 1938.05 Flag: Panama
  • Owner: Otto Behnke, Danzig
• 1939 Owner: American & West Indian Shipping Corporation
  • Call sign: HPIH
• 1940 Renamed Songa; Flag: Norway
  • Port: Bergen
  • Owner: D/S. A/S. Songa, Bergen
  • Manager: Klaus Wiese Hansen, Bergen
• 1940.01.22 Sunk by U-25 220 miles west of Isles of Scilly