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Name: LORD RHONDDA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: Q4/1917
Completed: 03/1918
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 206
Dimensions: 1744grt, 1029nrt, 260.4 x 37.7 x 16.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 207nhp
Engines by: J Dickinson & Sons, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 142322
History:
11/03/1918 Redlands Shipping Co Ltd (HO King), London
1919 Plisson Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London
1924 King & Co (Cardiff) Ltd, London
1928 Constants (France) Ltd, London; renamed OTTINGE
1929 Constants (South Wales) Ltd, London
1937 “Socdeco” SA, Panama; renamed TINGE
1938 Dillwyn Steamship Co Ltd (Stockwood, Rees & Co), Swansea; renamed RONWYN
1943 Deutsches Reich (Luebeck-Wyburger DG), Luebeck; renamed HOCHHEIMER
21/05/1944 Sank
Comments: 18/06/1940: Abandoned with damage at Rochefort
05/1943: Recommissioned after repairs by German salvors
21/05/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by submarine SCEPTRE, 1 mile N of Cabo Machichaco


Above photo as LORD RHONDDA is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as OTTINGE is courtesy of Paul Hood

Above photo as OTTINGE is copyright of the Hansen Collection. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Above photo as OTTINGE is copyright of the Hansen Collection. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return