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Name: WADDON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/05/1904
Completed: 08/1904
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 83
Dimensions: 3931grt, 2561nrt, 340.4 x 47.1 x 20.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 40 & 67 x 45ins), 319nhp
Engines by: Richardsons, Westgarth & Co Ltd, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118483
History:
30/08/1904 Houlder, Middleton & Co, London
1913 Mitre Shipping Co Ltd (Houlder, Middleton & Co Ltd), London
1918 Cassar Ltd (T Hick & Co Ltd), London
1922 FV Eberhardt & Co Ltd, London
1923 AG Hugo Stinnes für Seeschiff ü Überseehandel, Hamburg
1923 Renamed HELENE HUGO STINNES 14
1927 Hermann Kimme, Bremen; renamed TOTILA
1930 Transoceanica Hungarian Trampshipping Co Ltd - G Barta, Budapest
1930 Renamed TENGER
2Q/1933 Broken up
Comments: Launched for Furness, Withy & Co and sold before completion
12/08/1904: The first vessel to enter Stephenson's new dry dock
2Q/1933: Broken up at Rotterdam by P Smit Jnr


Above photo, showing WADDON dressed overall entering the new dock, is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as HELENE HUGO STINNES 14 is courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 31/05/1904