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RINGDOVE (1912)
Service dates: 1947-1950
Official number: 180957
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 09.1912
- Delivered as Badenia for the Rhein & See-Schiff Ges, Koln.
- 1930s
- General Steam Navigation Company acquired a small interest in the vessel when they took over the Rhine London Line.
- 1939
- Sold to A Kirsten & Co Ltd and renamed Titania.
- 05.1945
- Taken as a prize in Rendsburg.
- 1946
- Put under the control of the Ministry of War Transport (General Steam Navigation Company, managers) and renamed Empire Conexe.
- 04.02.1947
- Acquired by the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd and renamed Ringdove.
- 12.09.1950
- Sold to British Iron & Steel Company and broken up at Bo’ness.