Borkum

North German Lloyd Company

The BORKUM was built by J.L.Thompson & Sons, Sunderland (engines by J.Dickinson & Sons, Sunderland) as the ELLEN RICKMERS for the Rickmers Line. She was a 5,350 gross ton ship, length 409ft x beam 50.5ft, straight stem, one funnel, two masts, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. There was capacity for 18-2nd and 950-3rd class passengers. Launched on 27/2/1896, she was chartered to North German Lloyd and commenced the first of six round voyages between Bremen and Baltimore on 24/9/1897, the last starting on 5/1/1900. In 1900 she was purchased by NGL and renamed BORKUM. She commenced her first Bremen - Baltimore - Galveston voyage on 13/9/1900 and made the last of three voyages on this service in February 1905. Between 1905-1913 she sailed between Bremen and South America and in 1914 sailed between Bremen and the Far East. Seized by Italy in 1915 and renamed ASTI, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, 220 miles SW of the Scilly Isles on 13/8/1917.

Known trips:
On April 10th, 1906, coming from Bremen, the Borkum arrived to the port of Buenos Aires City, Argentina, with Felix Parkansky and his family on board.