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Gedania-(1920-1941)
"Gedania" was build in 1919/20.
"Gedania" .
"Gedania" drawing around 1940.
Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :
GEDANIA - 1919/20 DZ 1Q (aft) (10¼)
8,966 GRT for Baltisch-Amerik. Petroleum Import G.m.b.H., Danzig 498.9 x 64.0
Tanker build by Howaldtswerke, Kiel (10/20) #587
1931 - s/o (Waried Tankschiff Rhederei G.m.b.H., mgrs.)
1932 - l.p. turbine fitted to engine
1933 - Waried Tankschiff Rhederei G.m.b.H., Hamburg GE
1939 - Kriegsmarine requisition - supply ship and oiler
Captured by HMS MARSDALE (OBV), 4 June 1941, in 43.38N-29.15W
1941 - EMPIRE GARDEN Ministry of War Transport (Gow, Harrison & Co., mgrs.), London BR 168211
1947 - SOUTHERN GARDEN The South Georgia Co., Ltd. (Chr. Salvesen & Co.), Leith
Broken up at Inverkeithing 1960 by T. W. Ward, Ltd., arr. 25.7.1960.