RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name PONTWEN
Type Cargo
Yard Number 639
Launched 28/04/1914
Completed 06/1914
Off. Number 136936
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T. 3 cyl.
GRT 4796
Length (feet) 380.2
Beam (feet) 50.9
First owner The W. & C. T. Jones S.S. Co. Ltd., Cardiff
   
History 1919 Woolston S.S. Co. Ltd. (S. Instone & Co.), Cardiff
  1920 MAINDY GRANGE, Maindy Shipping Co. Ltd. (Jenkins, Richards & Evans Ltd.), Cardiff
  1922 Sir David R. Llewellyn Bart., Cardiff
  1932 MOUNT PINDUS, Tramp Shipping Development Co. Ltd. (Rethymnis & Kulukundis), Panama
  1935 MICHALIS POUTOUS, P. M. Poutous, Piraeus
  1936 ARIS, Michael M. Xylas, Syra
   
Fate 12/10/1939 shelled and sunk by U.37 in 53.28N 14.30W on passage Troon for Hampton Roads in ballast.

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