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Name: SIMONE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/04/1904
Completed: 05/1904
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 118
Dimensions: 1188grt, 694nrt, 232.0 x 35.0 x 16.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (17.5, 29 & 48 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/1904 A/S D/S Heimdal (M Carl), Copenhagen
1928 Helsingin Lloyd Oy, Helsingfors; renamed OTAVA
1940 HFC Arp Dampfschiffs Reederei, Hamburg; renamed CARL ARP
1943 Government of Finland; renamed OTAVA
1946 Helsingin Lloyd Oy, Helsingfors
1955 Rederi Ab Houtskar, Turku; renamed HOUTSKAR
07/1957 Broken up
Comments: 04/11/1939: Captured by a German warship off Sundsvall, taken as a war prize
7/1957: Broken up at Hendrik Ido Ambacht


Photo as SIMONE courtesy of George Robinson