Re: ss thorold
Posted by:
Ron (IP Logged)
Date: November 18, 2005 07:22AM
Hi Tony
1,689 tons built for Ontario Transportation & Pulp Co., Ltd., London
Dimensions 250.0 x 43.1
Built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle and completeed in July 1922 as Yard No.1187 and launched as CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Official No.146589(
1924 owned by Chicago Tribune Transportation Co., Ltd., London - s/o
1929 owned by Quebec & Ontario Transportation Co., Ltd., Montreal - s/o
1933 renamed THOROLD s/o
1940 - Ministry of Shipping, London; R. S. Dalgleish was the manager
Bombed and straffed, sunk, 22 Aug 1940, 2½ miles south of the Smalls, voyage from Cardiff to London with coal
Ten men, including Captain Jackson, were lost and five were wounded.
Cheers Ron