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Name: RUTH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/03/1900
Completed: 04/1900
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 250
Dimensions: 3449grt, 2239nrt, 330.0 x 48.0 x 24.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 38 & 64 x 42ins), 275nhp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1918: 142291)
History:
04/1900 Hagbert Waage, Christiania
1914 D/S A/S Ruth (H Waage), Oslo
1918 The Shipping Controller (Wm France, Fenwick & Co Ltd), London
1919 D/S A/S Ruth (H Waage), Oslo
1927 A/S Britannic (Brummenaes & Torgersen), Haugesund
1932 Renamed RUTH I
06/04/1944 Sank
Comments: 06/04/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U302 at 45.05N 35.11W
On a voyage from Halifax to Loch Ewe with a cargo of steel & lumber


Above photo as RUTH I copyright of the Haugalandmusee