Place
Turku harbor
Date
--.--.1958
Description
SS WELLAMO
Passenger steamship built by A/S Kjøbenhavns Flydedok & Skibsvaerft, completed in 1927 by A/S Burmeister & Wain's Maskin og Skibsbyggeri after a shipyard merger.
Passenger steamship built by A/S Kjøbenhavns Flydedok & Skibsvaerft, completed in 1927 by A/S Burmeister & Wain's Maskin og Skibsbyggeri after a shipyard merger.
Passengers I class 72, II class 106
10944 GRT, 890 NRT, 714 tdw, 80,01 x 12,23 x 5,24 m.
Triple long engine, 3 cyl of shipyard manufacture, 2,190 IHP, 13 knots.
Operated on the lines Helsinki - Tallinn - Szczecin, Helsinki - Lübeck and
Helsinki - Copenhagen - Hull.
After World War II on the Turku - Stockholm and Helsinki - Stockholm lines.
After 1960 on the Helsinki - Travemünde line.
23.10.1967 sold to M. Rauanheimo Oy (Ab R. Nordström & Co. Oy) Kokkola, new name OULUTAR.
08.05.1969 sold to Oy Vasa - Umeå Ab, Vasa, new name ÖRNEN.
22.09.1969 sold to Vasa Skrothandel for scrapping, arrived in Helsinki in October and was cut up at Katajanokka by Helsingin Romuliike.
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From Birger Rönnsjö's photo register with personal portraits.
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