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Built at Rickmers Werft Bremerhaven 1906 sail area 5025 sqm. length 134 meters, breadth16.4 m. GRT:5548 cargo 8000 tons.
She was bought by the British and renamed Neath.
In 1917 this former German pride of the seas was torpedoed by the German submarine U66 near Fastnet, Ireland whilst on her way from Mauritius to the U.K. with a load of sugar.
copyright: Hempel A/S, Copenhagen, 11/02
artist: Johannes E. Moeller
She was bought by the British and renamed Neath.
In 1917 this former German pride of the seas was torpedoed by the German submarine U66 near Fastnet, Ireland whilst on her way from Mauritius to the U.K. with a load of sugar.
copyright: Hempel A/S, Copenhagen, 11/02
artist: Johannes E. Moeller
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