Bronze Age Gold from Wales
S.S. OTTINGE, glass negative
¾ Port stern view of S.S. OTTINGE at Cardiff Docks.
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.