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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