RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name DUNGENESS
Type Cargo steamship
Yard Number 558
Launched 12/07/1904
Completed 07/1904
Off. Number 118468
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 2748
Length (feet) 331
Beam (feet) 48
First owner Fargrove S.N. Co. Ltd. (Farrar, Groves & Co. Ltd.), London.
   
History 1917 Letricheux Line Ltd. (Letricheux & David Ltd.), Swansea.
  1920 Cornborough Shipping Line Ltd. (W. R. Smith & Sons), Swansea.
  1923 St. Just S.S. Co. Ltd. (Sir William R. Smith & Sons Ltd.), Swansea.
  1927 KONSULS P. DANNEBERGS, P. Danneberg, Riga
  06/1940 seized by U.S.S.R. in Baltic waters
  22/06/1941 seized by Germany at Stettin, renamed BRAUNAU, Deutsches Reich (A. Seeberg), Stettin.
  17/10/1944 damaged by a mine in the Öresund, found under repair at Nakskov in 05/1945 and transferred to U.S.S.R., temporary repairs completed 04/1948 and towed to Riga where she was laid up
   
Fate Broken up in Riga after 1949.

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