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no.8431

Launch of TSS Otranto

09 Jun 1925

View taken from the south side of the launchway. Ship in the water being arrested by drag chains with much spray and whipping of lines. Packed crowd near water at bottom left of image. Launched on 9 Jun1925 for Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd. She served as a troopship from 1939 to 1948 before resuming her trade to Australia. Scrapped at Faslane 14 June 1957.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=10122

no.8431

Launch of TSS Otranto

09 Jun 1925

View taken from the south side of the launchway. Ship in the water being arrested by drag chains with much spray and whipping of lines. Packed crowd near water at bottom left of image. Launched on 9 Jun1925 for Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd. She served as a troopship from 1939 to 1948 before resuming her trade to Australia. Scrapped at Faslane 14 June 1957.

Location: Vickers shipyard Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/7891
Sankey Number: 8431

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8430 Fleetwood Trawler Dominator FD 198 (There is Dorinda FD 198) Fleetwood trawler either Dominator or Dorinda, both with the same registration number
8431    Launch of TSS Otranto (9/6/25) TSS Otranto at end of slipway entering Walney Channel, launch 9 June 1925
8432    Missing PC Missing
8433 Missing PC Missing
8434    Missing PC Missing
8435    Missing PC Missing
8436    TSS Otranto at Vickers Wharf TSS Otranto at Vickers fitting out wharf, Buccleuch Dock
8437    TSS Otranto at Vickers Wharf TSS Otranto at Vickers fitting out wharf, Buccleuch Dock
8438    Launch of TSS Otranto TSS Otranto at end of slipway entering Walney Chammel
8439 SS Nova Scotia at Vickers SS Nova Scotia and Vickers fitting out wharf, Devonshire Dock