A letter of the
office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner Maritime Branch, Operations
Division dated 1 March 1948 announced Bid no. 223 dealing with the sale by the USA of surplus vessels located at Bremerhaven, Germany.
Dimensions 115
(over all) x 15 x 6,5 (loaded) x 6,86 (depth to main deck) metres,
Main engine was
1-3.500hp single acting plunger piston 2-stroke MAN ACW engine and one ships
and as auxiliary engines were 2xe180 hp 6 cylinder 4-stroke MAN diesels
available. Coal bunker capacity 42 tons. Speed 8 (economical)-14 (maximum) sea
miles. Gross register tonnage .2731-3.300 (gross cargo)-4.570 (sperrbrecher
gross) tons. Water capacity 336 cubic metres, Drinkwater capacity 336 cubic metres
and gas oil capacity 269
cubic metres. Original cost 850.000,00 US dollars.
Original built as a passenger cargo ship in 1941. Grain space 9.000 cubic metres
and bale capacity 8.000
cubic metres. Five cargo winches. Five cargo holds.(1)
Source
Archive Marinestaf
1945-1948 (National Archive, The Hague),
inventory number 867
Note
1. The
Sperrbrecher No. 33. According to Peter Arndt (Deutsche Sperrbrecher 1914-1945)
was she with yard number 929 built at the Deschemag Werke AG Weser, Bremen in
1940, became in May 1948 the Norwegian Sunni , renamed in 1949 Tindfjell as
owned by A/S Rudolf (Olsen&Ugelstadt), Oslo, Norway, sold in 1951 to
Compania Maritima, Manila, Philippines and renamed Cebu and finally broken up
at Taiwan in 1974.
