SS Friedrich Bischoff

The ship as Kaisaniemi, between 1951 and 1967
History
Name	1940: Friedrich Bischoff 1945: Empire Consequence 1951: Kaisaniemi
Namesake	1940: Friedrich Bischoff 1941: Kaisaniemi, Helsinki
Owner	1940: Argo Reederei 1945: Ministry of War Transport 1945: Ministry of Transport 1947: US Maritime Commission 1948: Alaska Transportation Co 1950: Norton Clapp 1951: Etelä-Suomen Laiva O/Y
Operator	1940: Richard Adler & Co 1940: Shipping & Coal Co Ltd 1951: Polttoaine Osuuskunta 1959: KS Laaksonen 1961: Etelä-Suomen Laiva O/Y
Port of registry	1940: 1945: London 1947: 1948: Tacoma 1950: Seattle 1951: Helsinki
Builder	Lübecker Maschinenbau, Lübeck
Completed	1940
Identification	1945: UK official number 180707 1945: call sign GFSX by 1948: US official number 254984 by 1949: call sign WVMP 1951: Finnish official number 1098 1951: call sign OFRB
Fate	Scrapped in 1967
General characteristics
Type	cargo ship
Tonnage	1,998 GRT, 1,065 NRT
Length	318 ft 2 in (96.98 m) overall 303.7 ft (92.6 m) registered
Beam	43.4 ft (13.2 m)
Draft	17 ft 8 in (5.38 m)
Depth	14.9 ft (4.5 m)
Decks	1
Ice class	1A
Installed power	1 × compound engine + exhaust steam turbine; 150 NHP
Propulsion	1 × screw
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems	by 1948: echo sounding device by 1952: radar added by 1954: wireless direction finding added by 1959: gyrocompass added

SS Friedrich Bischoff was a cargo steamship. She was built in Germany in 1940. The United Kingdom seized her in 1945, and renamed her Empire Consequence. In 1947 she was transferred to the United States Maritime Commission. In 1951 a Finnish company bought her and renamed her Kaisaniemi. She was scrapped in Norway in 1967.