Hertford (1920)
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Germany | |
| Name: | Friesland, originally Rheinland |
| Owner: | Hamburg-Amerika Linie (HAPAG), Hamburg |
| Builder: | Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack, Germany |
| Launched: | October 1917 |
| Completed: | June 1920 |
| Fate: | Ceded as war reparations |
 Great Britain |
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| Name: | Hertford |
| Owner: | Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd |
| Acquired: | 1922 |
| Fate: | torpedoed by U-571 on 29 March 1942 |
| Status: | shipwreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Freighter[1] |
| Tonnage: | 10923 gross tons[1] |
| Length: | 162.5 m (533 ft)[1] |
| Beam: | 19.6 m (64 ft)[1] |
| Draft: | 11.64 m (38.2 ft)[1] |
| Installed power: | 1,300 hp (970 kW)[1] |
| Speed: | 14 knots[1] |
| Complement: | 62 (including captain & gunnery complement)[1] |
| Armament: | armed (details not known)[1] |
Hertford (formerly Rheinland and Friesland) was a freighter which was built in Germany in 1917 and served with both the Hamburg-Amerika Linie and Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd before being lost after torpedoing by the German submarine U-571 off the coast of Massachusetts in 1942. She was also extensively damaged after striking a German mine off the Australian coast in 1940.
Origins
She was built by Bremer Vulkan at Bremen-Vegesack in Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany. She was launched in October 1917 under the name Rheinland and completed in June 1920 as Friesland for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie (HAPAG), Hamburg. In 1922, she transferred to Great Britain as war reparations and sold to the Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd who renamed her as Hertford.[2]
Incident in Australian waters during 1940
On 7 December 1940, Hertford struck a mine approximately Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). west-south west of the Neptune Islands off the South Australian coast in a mine field placed by the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin during November 1940.[3][4] She was towed to Port Lincoln for temporary repairs, then to Port Adelaide where further repairs were carried out and then she sailed to Sydney where she was dry-docked to complete repairs.[5] The mine field was the subject of a mine sweeping operation in 1946 using German naval records to ensure that all mines had been accounted for.[6][7]
Loss
Hertford was sunk by the German submarine U-571 on 29 March 1942 about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). east of Nantucket, Massachusetts with the loss of four of her 62 crew.[8] The wreck site is reportedly to be located in the vicinity of Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[2]
See also
References
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