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Name: DOMINIA
Type: Cable Ship
Launched: 16/03/1926
Completed: 06/1926
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1216
Dimensions: 9180grt, 5460nrt, 488.8 x 59.0 x 37.4ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (24, 40.5 & 66 x 45ins), 932nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 13.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 148768
History:
06/1926 Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co Ltd, (WS Smith, manger), London
1937 Government of the USSR; renamed NIKOLAY EZHOV
1939 Renamed FELIKS DZERZHINSKIY
No further history known
Comments: Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co was a subsidiary of the Atlantic Telegraph Co
1979-1981: Deleted from registers


Above photo as DOMINIA is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as FELIKS DZERZHINSKIY is courtesy of the US Navy

Above photo as FELIKS DZERZHINSKIY is courtesy of T Arturus

Above background on FELIKS DZERZHINSKIY is courtesy of Chris Howell