SS Hertford
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| Port of registry | London |
| Route | Britain – Australia / New Zealand |
| Builder | Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack |
| Yard number | 577 |
| Launched | October 1917 |
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| Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 29 March 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | refrigerated cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 10,923 GRT, 6,889 NRT |
| Length | 520.7 ft (158.7 m) registered length |
| Beam | 64.2 ft (19.6 m) |
| Draught | 31 ft 10 in (9.70 m) |
| Depth | 38.1 ft (11.6 m) |
| Decks | 3 |
| Installed power | by 1930: 1,290 NHP |
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| Speed | by 1930: 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity | 409,099 cubic feet (11,584 m3) refrigerated hold space |
| Crew | 1942: 60 plus 2 DEMS gunners |
| Sensors & processing systems | by 1930: wireless direction finding |
| Armament | DEMS |
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SS Hertford was a refrigerated cargo steamship that was launched in Germany in 1917, seized by the United Kingdom in 1920 as World War I reparations, and sunk by a U-boat in 1942 with the loss of four members of her crew.
She was launched as Rheinland for Hamburg America Line, but was completed in 1920 as Friesland. The UK Shipping Controller seized her that same year, and in 1922 sold her to the Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd, who renamed her Hertford.
This was the first of two ships in the Federal Steam fleet to be called Hertford. The second was a motor ship that was built in England in 1948, transferred to P&O in 1973, sold and renamed in 1976 and scrapped in 1985.