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Thode Fagelund
1920 General cargo
Buildingyard: Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd., Sunderland
Built year: 1920
Yard no: 678
Tonnage: GRT: 5757/ NET: 3604/ TDW: 8325
Dims: LOA: 395,0/ BR: 53,3/ DR: 32,7ft
Machinery: 3-cyl 3exp by Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd. Sunderland
- later fitted with low pressure exhaust steam turbine - 2900 ihp
Speed: 12,00knots
Passengers: 8
Photo: Unknown
07.08.1920: Launched
29.10.1920: Completed. Price: NOK 4.134.503,75
17.11.1941: Torpedoed and sunk 60mile east of East London by the Vicky French sub LE HEROS. On passage from Chittagong
and Madras to Table Bay and Uk with scrapiron, jute and tea. All onboard survived, but 3rd mate died onboard the
lifeboat by illness.
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