RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name SWINDON
Type Cargo steamship
Yard Number 505
Launched 22/06/1899
Completed 07/1899
Off. Number 109786
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 3847
Length (feet) 351
Beam (feet) 48
First owner Swindon S. S. Co. Ltd. (Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co.), Cardiff.
   
History 1912 BADMINTON, Walter Thomas S.S. Co. Ltd. (same managers)
   
Fate 23/07/1916 captured and shelled by U.39 when 63 m N.E. by N. of Cape Carbon, Algeria on passage Torre Annunziata for Algiers in ballast

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