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TRELEVAN (1914)

Service dates: 1920-1929

Official number: 144396

Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

17.04.1914
Launched.
06.1914
Completed as Lubeck for Deutsch-Australische DG, Germany.
1919
Surrendered to Great Britain as a prize and allocated to The Shipping Controller (British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, managers).
18.11.1920
Purchased for £121,350 by The Hain Steamship Company Ltd and renamed Trelevan.
1929
Sold to Donaldson Line Ltd, Glasgow (Donaldson Bros & Co Ltd, managers) and renamed Airthria.
1938
Sold to Rederi A/B Atlanta, Finland (B Krogius, manager) and renamed Anja.
1941
Taken over by the United States Maritime Commission, registered under the Panamanian flag and renamed Scapa Flow.
14.11.1942
Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U134 south-west of Cape Verde Island whilst on a voyage from West African ports to Baltimore. She was carrying a cargo of 4,500 tons of manganese ore, 1,500 tons of latex in drums and 500 tons of baled rubber. 33 of her crew were lost.


Ship technical details (PDF)