SS Frankenwald
Frankenwald at anchor | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake |
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| Owner |
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| Port of registry | |
| Builder | Furness, Withy, Middleton |
| Yard number | 308 |
| Launched | 20 January 1908 |
| Completed | October 1908 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | scrapped 1967 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger and cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 3,898 GRT, 2,391 NRT |
| Length | 352.1 ft (107.3 m) |
| Beam | 45.1 ft (13.7 m) |
| Depth | 26.0 ft (7.9 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 359 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Notes | sister ships: Westerwald, Spreewald |
SS Frankenwald was a passenger and cargo steamship that was launched in England in 1908 for Hamburg America Line. In 1919 France seized her as part of Germany's World War I reparations. In 1920 the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet bought her and renamed her Tadla. A Turkish shipowner bought her in 1934 and renamed her Tari. She passed through a succession of Turkish owners, and was scrapped in 1967.
This was the first of two HAPAG ships called Frankenwald. The second was built in Germany in 1922 and wrecked in Norway in 1940.