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Name: RONDO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/09/1889
Completed: 10/1889
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 98
Dimensions: 1199grt, 744nrt, 225.2 x 32.6 x 15.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (16.5, 27 & 44 x 33ins), 98nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96157
History:
10/1889 RB Fenwick & J Reay, Newcastle
1896 RS Gardiner & J Reay, Newcastle
1899 Pelton Steamship Co Ltd (Gardiner & Reay), Newcastle
1910 D Petrone & G Lizzio, Catania; renamed AURORA
1912 G Lizzio, Catania
1925 Soc Sicula Carboni, Catania
1928 Soc Anon Catanese Imprese Trasporti, Catania
1931 Carlo Tucci Vitiello, Torre del Greco
1937 Achille Lauro, Naples
1940 Enrico Romano, Genoa; renamed SANTA CHIARA
1948 Raffaele Romano, Naples; renamed BOREA
1950 Renamed LATINIA
02/1958 Broken up
Comments: 02/02/1958: Arrived at Savona for breaking up by Giuseppe Riccardi