GER - YN 236 SS Birkenfels Structural Plans (1909)

by: Joh C Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, Germany

Publication date: 1909-10-18

Topics: Booklet of General Plans, SS Birkenfels, Dry Cargo, Ockenfels Type (DDG Hansa), DDG Hansa, Royal Dutch Shell, GER, General Arrangement Plan, Deck Plan, BOGP, Dry Cargo Ship, Blueprint, Blueprint Ship, Ship Design Drawings, Joh C Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, Germany

Collection: ship-design-drawings

Language: english-handwritten

GER - SS Birkenfels
Dry Cargo Ship

Ockenfels Type (DDG Hansa)

official nr:

yard nr: 236

yard: Joh C Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, Germany

laid down:

launched: june 7 1910

completed: july 23 1910

23/7/1910: - Delivered as Birkenfels to Deutschen Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft Hansa (DDG Hansa), Bremen, Germany

20/8/1914: - Confiscated by British Government in port of Capetown, South Africa. Registered for The Admiralty, London. Managed by Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd. Renamed Tandem

1915: - Renamed Polshannon

1919: - Management to Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, part of Royal Dutch Shell

1921: - Sold to Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, renamed Pinna

1922: - Conversion to Tanker

3/2/1942: - In service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Attacked and badly damaged by Japanese aircraft off Sumatra in the Berhala Strait at position 00°52' S / 104°19' E.

4/2/1942: - Attacked again by Japanese aircraft, caught in a minefield and sunk

SS Birkenfels on ddghansa-shipsphotos

SS Birkenfels on Wrecksite

Structural Plans dated october 18 1909

- incomplete set of drawings

- various dates

00 - cover photo +

01 - profile **

02 - cover sheet midship section *

03 - midship section *

* - 1909

** - october 18 1909

+ - unknown date

Downloaded from the from the Lloyd's Heritage Foundation website, original download location

Available drawings for:

- Ockenfels Type (DDG Hansa) ships

- DDG Hansa ships

- Royal Dutch Shell ships

version 1.03

december 18 2022

Notes

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