Name: | ROSA also seen as ROSA P |
Launched: | 07/05/1894 |
Completed: | 05/1894 |
Builder: | JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 159 |
Dimensions: | 126grt, 30nrt, 90.0 x 20.0 x 9.0ft (1941: 115grt, 35nrt) |
Engines: | T3cyl (12, 20 & 32 x 22ins), 60nhp, 350ihp |
Engines by: | JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
1894 | Riccardo Pierano, Genoa |
19xx | Sold - probably to Austrian or Hungarian owners |
1918 | Société de Navigation Danubienne (SND), Paris & Braila; renamed VOLTAIRE |
1926 | Société Française de Navigation Danubienne (SFND), Paris & Braila |
07/1940 | Goeland Transport & Trading Co Ltd, London & Braila; renamed BERNADETTE |
15/03/1941 | Admiralty |
1942 | German forces in Crete |
1944 | Ministry of War Transport |
1945 | Sank |
Comments: | 30/05/1894: ROSA sailed from the Tyne for Braila, on the Danube |
1897: Listed as ROSA P in Italian Official Mercantile Register | |
1918: War prize at Corabia, Romania and allocated to France | |
1940: Evacuated to Istanbul | |
15/03/1941: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and sent to Piraeus | |
3/1941: Evacuated to Crete | |
26/5/1941: Sunk in Suda Bay. She was later raised and operated in Crete and Piraeus | |
09/1944: Recaptured by Allied forces | |
Later with Greek Navy at Pireaus | |
26/6/1945 Sunk by a German mine at Skaramanga Bay | |
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details |
Marine Engineer, June 1894