Ship Details

Rig

Steel Screw Steamer

Built

1914

Built In

Tonnage

7,585g 4,798n

Dimensions

455.3 x 56.3 x 32.5

Demise

Ocean Steam Ship Co.Ltd (A.Holt & Co, Mgr.), reg. Liverpool. 1942 May 28: Torpedoed off Key West Florida by U-106. Carrying war materials from New Orleans to Bombay, via Cape Town when the torpedo struck her on the port side of the engine room which was wrecked and flooded. Four engineers and three Chinese crew were killed. A second torpedo almost cut the ship in half. The survivors were picked up by Antilochus.

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