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Name: CHATEAUROUX
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 1921
Completed: 02/1921
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 221
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, 10.0 knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1941: 166318)
History:
02/1921 Cie Française des Chemins de Fer de Paris-Orléans, Nantes
1920 Managers Soc Maritime Auxiliaire de Transports
1929 Cie Delmas Frères & Vieljeux, La Rochelle
1936 Cie Delmas - Vieljeux, La Rochelle
1940 Ministry of Shipping / Ministry of War Transport
1940 Managers Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, Liverpool
08/1944 Cie Delmas - Vieljeux, La Rochelle
07/1945 Broken up
Comments: 06/09/1940: Seized by the UK Government at Pointe Noire
02/11/1944: Stranded near Dingle Jetty in the Mersey,
inwards from Quebec for Garston with a cargo of wood pulp
27/12/1944: Refloated and beached
25/05/1945: Refloated and sold for breaking up
11/07/1945: Arrived for breaking up at Preston