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Help with Identification please

PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:16 pm
by Whickham
Gents (and others) I have been sent this photo of a freighter at Cape Town in February 1933. The sender has suggested that it might be a Tyne built ship but I think this might just be an excuse to get another set of eyes on the photo. Anyone out there with any ideas?

Freighter.jpg

Re: Help with Identification please

PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:26 am
by northeast
Plenty of detail in the ship, but I suspect that the overexposure of the white may hide some emblem on the white band of her funnel, which would be the key to her name.
Could be a Rowland & Marwood!

Re: Help with Identification please

PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:45 pm
by Whickham
Thanks for the thoughts George.

Re: Help with Identification please

PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:27 pm
by Whickham
It would seem that she has been identified as HANAU of the Deutsch-Australische fleet, built by Blohm & Voss at Steinwerder in 1921.