| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
|
| Owner |
|
| Builder | Wood, Skinner & Company Limited |
| Yard number | 87[1] |
| Laid down | 1899 |
| Launched | 30 December 1899[2] |
| Completed | February 1900[2] |
| Fate | Foundered following collision 30 October 1913 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,400 GRT |
| Length | 77.9 metres (256 ft)[1] |
| Beam | 11 metres (36 ft)[1] |
| Depth | 4.8 metres (16 ft)[1] |
| Installed power | 144nhp; 650 indicated horsepower (480 kW) |
| Propulsion | Triple-expansion steam engine |
SSTelefon was a Norwegian cargo steamship of about 1,400 GRT built by on the River Tyne in 1900. She was wrecked in South Shetland Islands in 1908, though later salved, repaired and returned to service. She was sunk in a collision off Denmark in 1913 as the BritishKinneil.[1][3]
TheTelefon was a 1403gross register ton steel cargo ship built in 1900 byWood, Skinner & Company Limited atBill Quay on theRiver Tyne. She was 77.9 metres (256 ft)length overall, 11 metres (36 ft) beam and 4.8 metres (16 ft) depth.[1][4]Telefon was launched on 30 December 1899.[5] Her triple expansion engine of 144 nhp or 650 indicated horsepower (480 kW) was supplied byNorth Eastern Marine Engineers Ltd ofSunderland andWallsend and drove a single propeller.[1][5]
The ship was built for P A Grøn ofSandefjord, Norway in 1900 and used to carry cargos to the Antarctic whaling ships ofChristen Christensen.[6] On one such voyage, carrying coal and empty barrels from Rotterdam, she struck a reef at the entrance toAdmiralty Bay,South Shetland Islands on 26 December 1908. Some sources considered her atotal loss as a wreck.[1][6]
Capt Adolfus Andresen, Norwegian owner of the Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes ofPunta Arenas,Chile which usedDeception Island as a whale factory ship base, salved theTelefon, putting her aground atPort Foster, Deception Island, where she was eventually refloated and returned to service with the whaling fleet.[6][7] That resumption of trading was brief as she was acquired in 1910 byThe Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd ofGreenock, transferred to the British flag and registered atGrangemouth.[4] The following year she was sold to the Lovart Steamship Co Ltd,Glasgow, under the management of Love, Stewart & Co,Bo'ness, who renamed herKinneil
Kinneilfoundered following a collision with the German steamshipDenebola on 30 October 1913, 75 miles (121 km) west ofthe Scaw,Denmark in theSkagerrak, while on voyage fromVilajoki,Finland to Bo'ness carryingpit props. The crew of 18 and the one passenger on board were all rescued.[3][8]
Telefon Bay where she was beached awaiting repair in 1909 and the adjacentTelefon Ridge, on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands ofAntarctica are both named after the ship.[9]
