Weserland. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Call sign DIRJ. Launched by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 414 on 18 February 1922, commissioned on 92 August 1922, blockade runner since 1940, renamed Weserland in 1941, left Yokohama, Japan on 26 October 1943 and sunk by the American destroyer USS Somers on 2 January 1944 between Ascension and the Brazilian coast. Gross tonnage 6,528 ton, under deck 6,121 ton, net tonnage 3,802 ton, deadweight 9,475 ton and as dimensions 449.1 x 58.4 x 25.6 x 28 (loaded) feet. Diesel prropulsion, 2 screws, oil bunker capacity 1,420 ton, range 20,000 nautical miles and speed 11 (normal cruising)-12.5 (maximum) knots.
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