RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name LADY LEWIS
Type Cargo steamship
Yard Number 585
Launched 29/04/1907
Completed 07/1907
Off. Number 123182
Engine builder North East Marine Engineering, Sunderland
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 3477
Length (feet) 350
Beam (feet) 49
First owner Lady Lewis S.S. Co. Ltd. (W. J. Tatem & Co.), Cardiff.
   
History 1910 Tatem S.N. Co. Ltd.
  1912 YANKALILLA, Adelaide S.S. Co. Ltd., Adelaide.
  1929 BOLIVIA, Rederi A/B Ovidia (C. I. Morin), Gothenburg.
  1930 PLUTO, Rederi A/B Iris (C. Abrahamsen), Stockholm.
  1932 Rederi A/B Pluto (Emm. Erikson), Mariehamn
   
Fate 20/06/1941 Captured by H.M.S. SUFFOLK 100m NW of Butt of Lewis on voyage South America via New York to Petsamo with wheat. She was sent to Iceland and then Kirkwall with marines on board but on 28/06/1941 she was torpedoed and sunk by U.146 about 100m NNW of Butt of Lewis.

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