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Name: NIDARNES
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/09/1926
Completed: 10/1926
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1289
Dimensions: 1188grt, 654nrt, 248.1 x 37.2 x 14.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (15, 25 & 40 x 27ins), 82nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: n/a; (1928: 154442)
History:
10/1926 Rederi A/S Nidaros (AL Ombustvedt), Oslo
1928 Delson Steamship Co Ltd, Montreal; renamed DELSON
1930 Sonia Shipping Co Ltd (FK Warren), Montreal; renamed SONIA
1941 Liverpool Packet Shipping Co Ltd (Markland Shipping), Liverpool, Nova Scotia
1941 Renamed LIVERPOOL PACKET
30/05/1942 Sank
Comments: 30/05/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U432, 150 miles
SW of Halifax at position 43.20N - 66.20W
On a voyage from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia


Above photo as SONIA courtesy Rowley W Murphy collection