| 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
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