Lothringen (oil tanker)
Papendrecht post war. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Papendrecht (1940–1941) |
| Port of registry | Rotterdam |
| Builder | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij |
| Yard number | 220 |
| Laid down | 18 April 1939 |
| Launched | 10 April 1940 |
| Fate | Requisitioned by Kriegsmarine |
| Germany | |
| Name | Lothringen |
| Port of registry | Hamburg |
| In service | May 1941 |
| Out of service | June 1941 |
| Fate | captured |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | RFA Empire Salvage |
| Port of registry | London |
| In service | 1941 |
| Out of service | 1946 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | returned to owners |
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Papendrecht |
| Port of registry | Rotterdam |
| In service | 1946 |
| Out of service | 15 April 1964 |
| Identification | |
| Fate | broken up at Onomichi, Japan by Onomichi Zosen |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Tanker |
| Tonnage | 10,746 GRT, 6,400 NRT, 15,597 DWT |
| Length | |
| Beam | 73 ft 0 in (22.25 m) |
| Draught | 28 ft 3.75 in (8.63 m) |
| Depth | 35 ft 5 in (10.80 m) |
| Installed power | 8-cylinder, 4-stroke Stork-Hesselman diesel engine |
| Propulsion | Screw |
| Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Crew | 35 |
| Armament | 2 x 3.7 cm, 3 x 2 cm guns (as Lothringen) |
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Lothringen was an oil tanker ordered for Dutch shipowner Phs. Van Ommeren under the name Papendrecht in Rotterdam. On 16 May 1940, the Kriegsmarine seized her when the ship was still under construction and she was renamed Lothringen. She was commissioned on 23 January 1941. The ship became the property of Erste Deutsche Walfang-Gesellschaft of Hamburg who converted her into a support ship for naval operations by the German battleship Bismarck and cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Atlantic. On 15 June 1941, Lothringen was captured by the British light cruiser HMS Dunedin and taken into service of the Admiralty, crewed by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. It was renamed Empire Salvage in 1941 and served the Allies for the remainder of the war. After the war, it was handed back to its owners.