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Name: LONDON TRADER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/05/1934
Completed: 06/1934
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 594
Dimensions: 646grt, 297nrt, 196.6 x 28.9 x 11.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (13.5, 23 & 38 x 27ins), 103nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 163482
History:
06/1934 Free Trade Wharf Co Ltd, London
26/07/1940 Sank
Comments: 26/07/1940: Sank after being torpedoed by a boat of German 1st S-Flotille
13 miles S by W of Shoreham on a voyage from the Tyne to Shoreham with coal