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Name: SZÉLL KÁLMÁN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/01/1902
Completed: 24/03/1902
Builder: Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune, Low Walker
Yard Number: 383
Dimensions: 3900grt, 2432nrt, 5976dwt, 366.0 x 48.2 x 17.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (22.5, 40 & 66 x 48ins), 361nhp
Engines by: Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 14.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
03/1902 Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Co Adria Ltd, Fiume
1918 US Shipping Board, Baltimore; renamed LYDIA
23/10/1918 US Navy; renamed USS LYDIA
15/05/1919 US Shipping Board, Baltimore; renamed LYDIA
1919 Lydia SS Co Inc (Susquehanna SS Co Inc), Baltimore
1923 Susquehanna Line Inc, New York
1924 Adria Soc Anon di Nav Marittima, Fiume; renamed MANZONI
1937 “Tirrenia” Soc Anon di Navigazione, Fiume
05/07/1940 Sank
Comments: Kalman von Szell was a Prime Minister of Hugary
Contract Price Ł70903; Profit Ł2007-5s-3d
01/06/1917: Seized by Brazil while laid up at Pernambuco
05/07/1940: Sank after being torpedoed by British aircraft at Tobruk,
later refloated and broken up by British salvors


Above photo as SZELL KALMAN copyright of Hajoregiszter

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 30/01/1902