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The salvage steamers "Ranger" and "Linnet", former Navy sloops were sent down from Liverpool, equipped for the work, and every available barge and coaster in the West Country was collected to receive cargo.
The next thing was to decide was what to do with the hull. The final plan was to cut the ship in two. After a lot of consideration and planning the big ship was cut in two just abaft the bridge. The swell lifting the buoyant stern finally helped to break the vessel in two and the after part floated off on an even keel. As the engines and boilers were still in full commission the "Suevic" steamed stern foremost to spare any strain on the exposed bulkhead, she then made her way to Southampton where she was docked.
A new 212ft (64m) fore part was built at Harland and Wolff and joined up. Suevic was out of service for 18 months at Southampton. The ship surgery on Suevic was, at the time, the largest rebuilding operation ever undertaken, as virtually half the ship was renewed.
1928 Sold to Yngar Hvistendahl Finnvhal A/S Tonsberg, Sweden for £35,000 and converted at Kiel into a Whale Oil Factory Ship (12,686 grt), r/n SKYTTEREN
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IDNo: 1113456 Year: 1901
Name: SUEVIC Type: Passenger/cargo (rf) Flag: GBR Tons: 12531
Country of build: GBR Builder: Harland & Wolff Location of yard: Belfast
Number ofscrews/Mchy/Speed(kn): 2Q-13.5
[1928 cv to whaling factory ship, 12686gt] - 28 SKYTTEREN
scuttled off Maseskar LH, Skagerrak 1.4.42 whilst escaping Gothenburg-UK
Als Skytteren.
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