SIR RAYLTON DIXON & COMPANY, MIDDLESBROUGH

Name ZUNGERU
Type Passenger Cargo
Yard Number 503
Launched 19/03/1904
Completed 07/1904
Off. Number 118107
Engine builder Wallsend Slipway Company, Newcastle
Engine type T. 6 cyl., twin screw
GRT 4075
Length (feet) 375.3
Beam (feet) 47
First owner Elder, Dempster Shipping Ltd. (Elder, Dempster & Co.), Liverpool
History 1906 BRUXELLESVILLE, Cie. Belge Maritime du Congo, Antwerp
1909 ZUNGERU, African Steamship Co. Ltd.  (Elder, Dempster & Co.), London
1910 LEGAZPI, Cia. Trasatlantica, Barcelona
1931 Cia. Trasmediterranea, Barcelona
   
Fate 19/03/1937 bombed and sunk by Nationalist aircraft at Benicasim, Castellón on passage Marseille for Valencia, refloated and towed to Sagunto for breaking but sunk again by air attack.

 

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