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INGRID

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:25 pm

Built as a 3 mast schooner by the shipbuilder Eric Söderström, at Olofsnäs, Geta parish, for the Alandsk rederi, a group of 33 shareholders, the shareholder with the most shares in the group was the farmer Johan Jansson.
Launched under the name INGRID.
Tonnage 305 gross, 290.92 net, 650 dwt., dim. 39.00 x 8.80 x 3.85m. (draught).
1907 Completed.

05 May 1916 Sold to the famous sailship shipowner Gustaf Erikson, then registered at Mariahamn.
1919 Sold to Allen, Adams & Co. Ltd., Southampton, renamed in RIGDIN.
1920 An 4 cyl. oil engine fitted in by Turham Engineering Works at Copenhagen of 65 nhp.
1925 Sold to J.Fletcher Campbell at Lymington.
1929 Sold to A.Stephens, used in the coastal trade around England, by the English owners.
Used till the end of the 1930th, in the interisland trade between the West Indies Islands, so it looks that she was sold again, and sailed to the West Indies. Some sources give scrapped in 1939.
She was the only Aland Island vessel sold to English shipowners.

Aland 1988 2m40 sg33, scott?

Source: World Ship Society. Navicula.
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