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REGISTAN (1930)
Service dates: 1930-1942
Official number: 161381
Shipping lines: STRICK LINE; STRICK LINE (1923)
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 30.01.1930
- Launched.
- 14.03.1930
- Ran trials and delivered as Registan for Strick Line (1923) Ltd.
- 09.1940
- Requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an ocean boarding vessel. Fitted with two 6-inch guns.
- 11.1941
- Returned to Strick Line.
- 28.09.1942
- Torpedoed and sunk about 120km (200 miles) ENE of Tobago by the German submarine U332. She was on a voyage from Basrah and Table Bay to Trinidad and Philadelphia with 1,319 tons of general cargo. Of her crew of 46 and 10 gunners, 11 crew and 5 gunners were lost.