Name: | LEDA |
Type: | Passenger Ship |
Launched: | 04/05/1920 |
Completed: | 11/1920 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 965 |
Dimensions: | 2520grt, 1173nrt, 305.6 x 41.7 x 18.4ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, DR geared, 624nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 16.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
11/1920 | Det Bergenske Dampskibskelskab (Bergen Line), Bergen |
07/1940 | Government of Germany |
12/1949 | Broken up |
Comments: | Accommodation for 100 x 1st & 50 x 3rd Class passengers |
07/1940: Requisitioned by the German Kriegsmarine | |
25/03/1945: Sank after being shelled by Soviet artillery near Gross | |
Siegendorf on a voyage from Stettin to Swinemünde | |
1948: Raised | |
12/1949: Broken up at Bremerhaven by Eisen ü Stahl AG |
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Malcolm Donnelly
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 20/12/1920