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Name: WESTMOUNT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/04/1903
Completed: 05/1903
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 287
Dimensions: 1877grt, 1171nrt, 248.7 x 42.0 x 20.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 35 & 58 x 39ins), 210nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 114445
History:
05/1903 Montreal Transportation Co Ltd, Montreal
1916 Inter-American Steamship Co Ltd, Montreal; renamed WETHERSFIELD
1917 Canadian Maritime Co Ltd, Montreal
1920 EJ Heinz (London) Ltd, Montreal & London
1923 Arnold Bernstein, Hamburg; renamed MAX BERNSTEIN
1926 Renamed FORDSON I
1926 Renamed TRACTOR
1937 Egon Oldendorff, Luebeck; renamed LUDOLF OLDENDORFF
09/10/1944 Sank
Comments: 1926: Rebuilt with larger bridge structure and plated-in deck cargo space
09/10/1944: Sank after being bombed while at Sirevaag, Egersund, Norway


Above photo as WESTMOUNT copyright of Rowley W Murphy

Above photo as WESTMOUNT copyright of Edward J Dowling

Above photo as TRACTOR copyright of Earl D Simzer

Above photo as LUDOLF OLDENDORFF copyright of the Robert Boman Collection