Trautenfels

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Length:	289.8 ft.
Breadth:	51.5 ft.
Draft (or Depth):	27.5 ft.
Tonnage:	4,699 tons (gross), 4,380 (underdeck), 2,932 (net)
Engines:	Quadruple expansion, 4 cyl. (2) 23.25", (2) 33.75", (2) 49.25", (2) 72" x 54" stroke, 501 NHP
Speed:
Builder:	Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesselschaft (Yard No. 237)
Launched:	March 19, 1904
Maiden Voyage:	May 14, 1904
Disposition:	April 1918 (wrecked off Hong Kong)
Particulars:	Port of Registry: Hamburg, Germany Flag of Registry: German Funnel color: Black with white stripe below black top; black Maltese cross in the white stripe. Company flag: White; narrow red stripes top and bottom; black Maltese cross at center of white area. Signal Letters: Q H T K Wireless call letters: D T R Details: Steel hull, one funnel, two masts, single screw, two decks, steel under teak, web frames, seven bulkheads, electric lights, wireless.

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

April 14, 1912 (reported at Boston on April 18) - Westbound, Hamburg to Boston, at 5:40 a.m., in the vicinity of 42.01N., 49.53W., sighted two icebergs fully 200 ft. long and 50 ft. high; soon afterwards, heavy field ice was encountered, which extended for a distance of 30 miles and made it necessary for the vessel to steam in a southwesterly direction for 25 miles in order to clear the field. (There is no record of wireless traffic from Trautenfels reporting this encounter.)

Data:

March 19, 1904

Launched.

May 14, 1904

Maiden voyage; Hamburg - Madras, Calcutta (arrived June 29).

August 1914

Interred at Bangkok.

1917

Seized by Siamese government. Renamed Yiam Samud.

April 1918

Wrecked off Hong Kong.

Courtesy: John P. Eaton. Used with permission.