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Penmount

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1900 Penmount Penmount S.S. Co. Ltd.
1920 Penmount R.B. Chellew S.N. Co. Ltd.
1928 Barta Latvian Government
1940 Barta USSR Government

Fate

Bombed and sunk by aircraft near Kronshtadt on September 21st, 1941. The waterlogged ship sat on the seabed but remained partly out of the water & was used by the Russians as an observation post. The vessel was raised on March 31st, 1944 and broken-up the following year.

 

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