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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.