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Friday, 6 June 2025

Dutch cargo ship Grangesberg 1903-1916 and Beukelsdyk 1916-1923

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Launched down by William Doxford&Sons Ltd., Pallion, Sunderland, England with yard number 305 on 14 March 1903, delivered on 25 April 1903 to owner/manager Wm H. Müller & Co's Algemeene Scheepvaart Maatschappij N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands, renamed Beukelsdyk and owner/manager N.V. Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Holland-Amerika Lijn', Rotterdam, Netherlands since 27 January 1916, in hands of the Uuited States Shipping Board-Naval Overseas Transportation Service between 21 March 1918-20 May 1919, returned to owner, run aground underway from Rotterdam towards Narvik, Norway on the Cliffs off Kuna, could not be salvaged and wrecked after a couple of monts. Turretdeck ship. 

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