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TREVILLEY (1940)

Service dates: 1940-1942

Official number: 167621

Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

24.04.1940
Launched.
08.1940
Completed as Trevilley for The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
12.09.1942
Torpedoed, shelled and sunk by the German submarine U68 in the South Atlantic (04°30’S-07°50’W). She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough and Oban to Table Bay and Beira with 6,000 tons of general cargo and military stores.


Ship technical details (PDF)