FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name RIGI
Type Cargo
Yard Number
Launched 09/09/1920
Completed 02/1921
Off. Number
Engine builder Richardsons, Westgarth & Co., Hartlepool 
Engine type T 3-cyl
GRT 5811
Length (feet) 400
Beam (feet) 53
First owner Camillo Eitzen & Co., Christiania
History 1930 OLAF BERGH, Eie's Rederi A/S (Bergh & Helland), Bergen
(for details of WW2 service see: http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/olafbergh.html)
  1950 REG 1, Deutscher Seeverkehr Erich Lubbert & Co., Hamburg
  1953 ALFRED THEODOR, Schulte & Bruns, Hamburg
  1957 JOACHIM SCHULTE, Schulte & Bruns in Dortmund u. 'Dollart' Reed., Hamburg
   
Fate 11/04/1959 Grounded on a wreck in the Kattegat (56.50N 11.11E) and abandoned the next day. 19/04/1959 sank during heavy weather.
Voyage Murmansk - Wismar.

RIGI as OLAF BERGH

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