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Name: HUNNIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/03/1911
Completed: 04/1911
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 168
Dimensions: 2234grt, 1433nrt, 281.2 x 43.0 x 19.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 35 & 57 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1918: 136663)
History:
04/1911 Atlantica Sea Navigation Co Ltd, Fiume
1914 Northern SS Co Ltd, St Petersburg; renamed BAIKAL
1918 The Shipping Controller (Turner, Morrison & Co), Bombay
1919 Northern SS Co Ltd, Petrograd
1921 Soc Maritime et Commerciale de France, Rouen; renamed SAN FERNANDO
1922 The Seed Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle; renamed MONICA SEED
1924 Shiozaki Yokichi, Nagasaki; renamed KOGIKU MARU
1928 Sawaguchi Kisen Kogyo KK, Amagasaki
12/07/1932 Sank
Comments: 07/07/1932: Ran ashore on Shinto Island, 40 nmiles S of Chemulpo
12/07/1932: Sank in deeper water
On a voyage from Wakamatsu to Chemulpo & Chinnampo with a cargo of coal


Above photo as HUNNIA is courtesy of Peter Vaskovics

Newcastle Journal, Thursday, 02/03/1911