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River
Rhein,
Germany
Bluecher
Above
: Photo from a post card available on board ship (Photo Kratz no.
64) in the late 1930s - shown with the kind permission of Markus Graf
Built in 1912 by Gebruder Sachsenberg at Koln-Deutz
Length : 84.3 m x 8.5 / 16.2 m
Engines : Compound diagonal by Sachsenberg at Rosslau
Built for the PRDG (Koln)
Sunk in Cologne on 14th October 1944 during a bombing raid
Scrapped in 1946
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