| Name: | REDSEA |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 24/02/1930 |
| Completed: | 04/1930 |
| Builder: | Northumberland Shipbuilding Co (1927) Ltd |
| Yard: | Howdon |
| Yard Number: | 418 |
| Dimensions: | 5224grt, 3176nrt, 412.8 x 55.3 x 26.0ft |
| Engines: | Q4cyl (23, 32.5, 47 & 68 x 48ins), 456nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 160888 |
| History: | |
| 22/03/1930 | Sea Steamship Co Ltd (Wm Brown, Atkinson & Co Ltd, managers), Hull |
| 1938 | Shipping & Chartering Agencies Ltd, Hull |
| 1938 | Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Dunkirk; renamed ANADYR |
| 1940 | Ministry of War Transport (H Hogarth & Sons, managers), Glasgow |
| 06/05/1944 | Sank |
| Comments: | 06/05/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U129, 520 miles ExS of Recife |
| On a voyage from New York to Cape Town with a cargo of drummed oil & stores |
Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox