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Name: PRINCE LLEWELLYN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/11/1882
Completed: 12/1882
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 487
Dimensions: 1641grt, 996nrt, 250.0 x 36.2 x 20.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (28.5 & 55 x 42ins), 157nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86494
History:
02/01/1883 Llewellyn SS Co Ltd (J & R Bovey), Cardiff
1887 Oriental Steam Ship Co Ltd (J & R Bovey), London
1893 Scottish Oceanic Steamship Co Ltd (Russell, Miller & Huskie), Glasgow
1894 A/S Hilda (WM Holby), Christiania; renamed W M HOLBY
1900 Ang A/B Viking (KOF Dalman), Gothenburg; renamed VANDA
1908 Fornyade Angfartygs A/B Viking, Gothenburg
1912 Manager became JM Danneberg
1915 H Uner A/B (R Gohle), Norrkoping
11/07/1917 Sank
Comments: 11/07/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U52, 150 miles ExN of Kirkwall
On a voyage from Seaham Harbour to Gothenburg with a cargo of coal


Above photo as VANDA is copyright of Robert Bomans

Shields Daily News, Monday, 27/11/1882