Belgian cargo ship Astrida 1928-1945

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Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Collectie Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM)-481-RDM-7190

Launched by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM), Rotterdam, Netherlands for the Cie. Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal) Soc. Anom., manager Agence Maritime Internationale on 22 December 1928, delivered in February 1929 and sunk in a heavy weather underway from Durban, South Africa towards Cape Town, South Africa and Matadi, Congo-Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of the Congo on 19 March 1945. Homeport Antwerp, call sign OQBA. Gross tonnage 3,422 ton, under deck 2,952 tons, net tonnage 2,055 ton and as dimensions 339.9 x 48.5 x 23.0 feet. Coal fuelled. 

British cargo ship Penrith Castle 1929-1946 (Fantee 1946-1949)

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Similar Thurland Castle and Penrith Castle. Call sign GTBD. Homeport Liverpool, England. Launched by Cammell Laird&Co.Ld., Birkenhead, England with yard number 947 on 9 May 1929, completed for Lancashire Shipping Co. Ld., manager J. Chambers&Co in July 1929, stranded on South Stone, Seven Stone Rocks in the Scillies underway from Matadi, Congo-Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of the Congo via Amsterdam, Netherlands to Liverpool on 6 October 1949 and lost. Gross tonnage 6,369 ton, under deck 5,738 ton, net tonnage 3,807 ton and as dimensions 464.4 x 60.3 x 25.8 feet. Oil-fuelled.