Name: | NEWONA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 01/07/1909 |
Completed: | 08/1909 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 841 |
Dimensions: | 2179grt, 1233nrt, 250.3 x 43.0 x 22.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (20.5, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 175nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 8.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 125470 |
History: | |
08/1909 | Canada Atlantic Transit Co Ltd, Newcastle & Montreal |
1915 | Fraser, Brace & Co Ltd, Montreal |
1917 | Fraser, Brace & Clark Ltd, Montreal |
1927 | Managers became Chas Kurz & Co Inc, Philadelphia |
1928 | SA Imprese Navali ed Affini (G Calzavara), Venice; renamed NEVONA |
1932 | Cia Industrie Marittime Affini Roma, Venice |
1934 | Soc Italiana Petroliere d’Oriente (G Castaldi), Venice & Rhodes |
1939 | “Fassio” SA di Navigazione, Genoa; renamed GEORGIA FASSIO |
1939 | Renamed PICCI FASSIO |
02/09/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | 1924: Converted to a tanker |
02/09/1942: Bombed, torpedoed & sunk 30 miles N of Derna | |
On a voyage from Suda Bay to Tobruk |
Above photo as NEWONA is courtesy of Photoship