SS Radaas
Appearance
History | |
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Name |
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Owner |
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Builder | J. Readhead & Sons, South Shields |
Yard number | 264 |
Launched | 17 September 1890 |
Completed | December 1890 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk on 21 September 1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 2,524 GRT |
Length | 290 ft (88 m) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Depth | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Installed power | 234 nhp |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engine |
SS Radaas was a 2524-ton cargo steamship. She was built by and launched in 1890 as Marstonmoor for Moor Lines. She was sold to a Greek company in 1902 and renamed Athos Romanos, before being sold to Danish interests during the First World War and renamed Radaas. She was sunk by the German submarine UB-40 under the command of Oberleutnant Hans Howaldt on 21 September 1917.[1] She was 18 miles west of Portland Bill en route from Tyne to Bordeaux when the torpedo struck her in the port side.[2] The wreck lies on a sandy bed at a depth of 30 m at 50°34′13″N 3°4′50″W / 50.57028°N 3.08056°W.
References
[edit]- ^ Suzanne Hall; McDonald, Kendall (1996). Dive South Devon (Diver Guides). Underwater World Publications. p. 38. ISBN 0-946020-24-8.
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Radaas". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 14 September 2008.
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