Name: | KATUNA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/02/1907 |
Completed: | 04/1907 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 793 |
Dimensions: | 4641grt, 2927nrt, 400.0 x 52.1 x 27.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44.5 & 75 x 48ins), 478nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 123809 |
History: | |
12/04/1907 | Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd, London |
1914 | Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co Ltd, London |
1929 | Renamed CITY OF SWANSEA |
1937 | Barry Shipping Co Ltd, Newport; renamed ST GLEN |
1939 | South American Saint Line Ltd, Newport |
06/09/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | 06/09/1940: Bombed & sunk by German aircraft, 9 miles SE of Peterhead |
On a voyage from Rosario to Hull carrying wheat, bully beef, hides & general cargo |
Above photo as KATUNA is courtesy of Clive Ketley
Above photo as KATUNA is copyright of City of Vancouver Archives, Walter E Frost Collection
Above photo as CITY OF SWANSEA is courtesy of Stuart Smith
Above photo as ST GLEN, halfway through a change of colours, is courtesy of Richard Cox