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ARABISTAN (1929)
Service dates: 1929-1942
Official number: 161272
Shipping lines: STRICK LINE
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 06.09.1929
- Launched.
- 27.07.1929
- Ran trials.
- 01.08.1929
- Completed as Arabistan for Strick Line (1923) Ltd.
- 11.08.1942
- Captured by the German auxiliary cruiser Michel and sunk in position 11°30’S-26°00’W. Of the crew of 57 plus 10 gunners only the chief engineer and a cadet survived, having been held prisoners of war in Japan until the end of the war. She was on a voyage from Busreh and Table Bay for Trinidad and New York with 3,267 tons of general cargo including tobacco, fur skins, liquorice and steel.