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Name: LINTROSE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/01/1913
Completed: 03/1913
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 898
Dimensions: 1616grt, 683nrt, 255.0 x 37.4 x 22.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 42.5 & 70 x 42ins), 587nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 133527
History:
14/03/1913 Reid Newfoundland Co, St John's, Newfoundland
1915 Russian Government - Min of Commerce & Industry, Arkhangelsk
1915 Renamed SADKO
11/09/1941 Sank
Comments: 20/06/1916: Wrecked in Kandalakshskaya Guba, White Sea, Russia
14/10/1933: Refloated and refitted
11/09/1941: Sank after striking an uncharted reef off Franz Josef Land


Above photo as LINTROSE is courtesy of Photoship

Above model as SADKO is courtesy of Photoship