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Hansa (ex - Memel, ex - King Alfred)
Built in 1905 by Thames Iron Works
Engines : Compound Diagonal by builders
Length : 130 feet
120 Gross Registered Tons
Served London County
Council's River Thames service from Greenwich to Hammersmith from
1905-1907 as King Alfred
Sold for service at Memel, Germany for Memel-Cranzer DSG, through a
London broker in 1909, and renamed Memel
Modernised with concealed paddle-boxes
Under the name Hansa, sailed on the Elbe estuary from Hamburg for the
Hamburg-Blankensee-Este Line
Modernised with the construction of deckhouses etc, she survived
until 1962 and was scrapped in 1965
https://maritime-photographie.de/img/3220 Photo of Hansa in her later years at Hamburg :
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