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Gedania-(1920-1941)
 "Gedania" was build in 1919/20.
"Gedania" .
 
"Gedania" drawing around 1940.

Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :

GEDANIA - 1919/20      DZ      1Q (aft)     (10¼)
8,966 GRT for Baltisch-Amerik. Petroleum Import G.m.b.H., Danzig       498.9 x 64.0
Tanker build by Howaldtswerke, Kiel     (10/20)     #587
1931 - s/o (Waried Tankschiff Rhederei G.m.b.H., mgrs.)
1932 - l.p. turbine fitted to engine
1933 - Waried Tankschiff Rhederei G.m.b.H., Hamburg     GE
1939 - Kriegsmarine requisition - supply ship and oiler
Captured by HMS MARSDALE  (OBV), 4 June 1941, in 43.38N-29.15W
1941 - EMPIRE GARDEN  Ministry of War Transport (Gow, Harrison & Co., mgrs.), London     BR      168211
1947 - SOUTHERN GARDEN   The South Georgia Co., Ltd. (Chr. Salvesen & Co.), Leith
Broken up at Inverkeithing 1960 by T. W. Ward, Ltd.,   arr. 25.7.1960.