Name: | DOWLAIS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 18/11/1880 |
Completed: | 12/1880 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 430 |
Dimensions: | 1164grt, 763nrt, 241.0 x 33.2 x 14.5ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (28 & 54 x 36ins), 120nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 83817 |
History: | |
16/12/1880 | Dowlais Steam Ship Co Ltd (Morel Bros & Co), Cardiff |
1895 | Managers became Morel Ltd |
1904 | Rċċ Rederi A/B (J Ohlsson), Rċċ |
1917 | Rederi A/B Othalia (A Th Jonasson), Rċċ; renamed OTHALIA |
1920 | AD Callinicos, Ithaca renamed IONIAN |
1924 | Mrs HG Razis (AD Callinicos), Ithaca |
1925 | Name shown as IONION |
15/08/1925 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 07/08/1917: Torpedoed by U-Boat UC31, 70 miles east of Kirkwall |
On a voyage from Malmo to London with a cargo of timber | |
Towed into Kirkwall and condemned there | |
New stern section built by Hawthorns & Co Ltd of Leith | |
15/08/1925: Wrecked at Buitra Point, east of Cabo Toriñana | |
On a voyage from London to Huelva with a cargo of scrap iron |
Above photo as DOWLAIS copyright of Robert Bomans