Category:Helvetia (ship, 1889)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: General cargo ship
- Built by: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company, Willington Quay, England
- Yard No: 68
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1888.11.20
- Completed: 1889.01
- Length over all: 316.0 ft
- Beam: 40.0 ft
- GRT: 2825
- DWT:
- www.tynebuiltships.co.uk
- www.theshipslist.com
History
[edit]- 1889 Named Helvetia; Flag: Germany
- Call sign: RHLQ
- Port: Hamburg
- Owner: Hamburg-America Line
- 1907 Sold to Seetransport GmbH, Hamburg; renamed Hermersberg
- 1909 Sold to Rhederei-Vereinigung GmbH, Hamburg
- Call sign: RHLQ
- Port: Hamburg
- 1911 Sold to Dampfs Rhed "Merkur" GmbH (Emil R Retzlaff), Stettin
- Call sign: RHLQ
- Port: Stettin
- 1915.05 Requisitioned by the Italian Government at Genoa
- Managed by Italian State Railways
- 1916.05.30 Torpedoed and sunk by German SM U-39 50 miles west of Cape Bougaroni
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