SS Heidberg
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SS Heidberg was a cargo steamship that was built in 1943 in Sweden for a German shipping company. The Allies in 1945 took it for war reparations. She was renamed Empire Convention, and spent about nine months under United Kingdom ownership and management. In 1946 she was transferred to the Soviet Union, who renamed her Эрнст Те́льман – Ernst Thälmann. Her fate is not recorded.
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Namesake | 1946: Ernst Thälmann |
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Operator | 1945: Ellerman's Wilson Line |
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Builder | Helsingborgs Varfs A/B |
Launched | 6 March 1943 |
Completed | 1943 |
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Fate | deleted from registers, 1970 |
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Tonnage | 1,714 GRT, 847 NRT |
Length | 277.6 ft (84.6 m) |
Beam | 41.4 ft (12.6 m) |
Depth | 16.2 ft (4.9 m) |
Decks | 2 |
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