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