Bronze Age Gold from Wales
S.S. OTTINGE, glass negative
¾ starboard bow view of S.S. OTTINGE, just off Cardiff's Pierhead, with the Mountstuart Dry-docks in the background.
The 1,744 gross ton steamer Ottinge was built on the Tyne in 1918, and was acquired by Constants (South Wales) Ltd. in 1929. The Constant family were natives of Gravesend who transferred their head office from London to Cardiff in 1929. Most of their vessels were named after rural villages in Kent. Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
S.S. OTTINGE. Built 1918 as LORD RHONDDA by Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd., Bill Quay, Sunderland, (engine by J. Dickenson & Son), for Redlands Shipping Co Ltd, London (managed by H.O. King). 1919 - Sold to Plisson S.N. Co Ltd., London. 1924 - Acquired by King & Co. (Cardiff) Ltd. 1928 - Sold to Constants (France) Ltd., and renamed OTTINGE. Transferred to Constants (South Wales) Ltd., in 1929. 1937 - Sold to “Socdeco” S.A., Panama, and renamed TINGE. 1938 - Sold to Dillwyn Steamship Co., Swansea, and renamed RONWYN, managed by Stockwood, Rees & Co. 1940 - Abandoned due to damage at Rochefort, France, but later repaired by German salvers. 1943 - Recommissioned into German service and renamed HOCHHEIMER, managed by Lubeck-Wyburger DG. She was torpedoed and sunk by submarine H.M.S. SCEPTRE on 21 May 1944, east of Bilbao.