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Name: LADY RHONDDA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/06/1918
Completed: 09/1918
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 207
Dimensions: 1757grt, 1039nrt, 260.4 x 37.7 x 16.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 207nhp
Engines by: J Dickinson & Sons Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 142655
History:
23/09/1918 Redlands Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff
1919 Plisson Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Cardiff
1924 King & Co (Cardiff) Ltd, Cardiff
1928 Constants (France) Ltd, London
1929 Constants (South Wales) Ltd; renamed LYMINGE
19/09/1931 Wrecked
Comments: 19/09/1931: Wrecked on Ebol Rock, West Gurnard Head
On voyage from Cardiff to Oporto with a cargo of coal


Above photo as LYMINGE is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as LYMINGE is courtesy of Kevin Blair