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Name: LORIENT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 1921
Completed: 09/1921
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 222
Dimensions: 4185grt, 2546nrt, 364.1 x 52.8 x 24.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 38 & 64 x 42ins), 347nhp
Engines by: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1941: 174320)
History:
09/1921 Cie Française des Chemins de Fer de Paris-Orléans, Nantes
1920 Managers became Soc Maritime Auxiliaire de Transports
1929 Cie Delmas Frères & Vieljeux, La Rochelle
1936 Cie Delmas - Vieljeux, La Rochelle
12/03/1941 Ministry of War Transport (British Continental Coal & Investments Ltd), Cardiff
04/05/1943 Sank
Comments: 18/02/1941: Captured by HMS MARSDALE off Cape Juby and seized by UK
04/05/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U125, 580 miles NE of St John's Nfld
On a voyage from London via Oban to New York in ballast. Lost with all hands


Above photo is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 30/08/1921