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Name: MONDARA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched:
Completed: 02/1921
Builder: J & D Morris Ltd
Yard: Pelaw Main
Yard Number: 69
Dimensions: 371grt, 148nrt, 135.2 x 23.6 x 10.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 48rhp; (1938: Oil Engine, 4SC, 6cyl (11.7 x 19.7ins))
Engines by: GT Grey & Co Ltd, South Shields; (1938: Waggon-u-Masch AG, Gorlitz)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 145412
History:
06/1921 Warden, Stewart & Orr, Belfast; registered at Belfast
1924 Stewart & Orr, Belfast
1931 Richard England Steamship Co Ltd, Cardiff
1935 P le Louarn & F Ollivier, Paimpol, France
1947 Broken up
Comments: 1938: Converted to an oil engine
1940: Converted to a minesweeper by the French Navy
03/07/1940: Seized by The Admiralty at Southampton
11/1940: Converted to a cable looplayer
06/1942: Beached at Yarmouth, IoW, after an air attack
Subsequently laid up and used for cable storage
1945: Returned to owners
1947: Condemned and broken up at Brest