Name: | NIDARNES |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 21/09/1926 |
Completed: | 10/1926 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1289 |
Dimensions: | 1188grt, 654nrt, 248.1 x 37.2 x 14.7ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (15, 25 & 40 x 27ins), 82nhp |
Engines by: | MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1928: 154442) |
History: | |
10/1926 | Rederi A/S Nidaros (AL Ombustvedt), Oslo |
1928 | Delson Steamship Co Ltd, Montreal; renamed DELSON |
1930 | Sonia Shipping Co Ltd (FK Warren), Montreal; renamed SONIA |
1941 | Liverpool Packet Shipping Co Ltd (Markland Shipping), Liverpool, Nova Scotia |
1941 | Renamed LIVERPOOL PACKET |
30/05/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | 30/05/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U432, 150 miles |
SW of Halifax at position 43.20N - 66.20W | |
On a voyage from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Above photo as SONIA courtesy Rowley W Murphy collection