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PHILOTIS (1926)
Service dates: 1926-1940
Official number: 148737
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 18.01.1926
- Launched.
- 02.03.1926
- Completed as Grebe for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 1937
- Transferred to Moss Hutchison Line (also a P&O subsidiary company) and renamed Philotis.
- 03.09.1940
- In a collision with the Lublin and sank 13km (8 miles) north-west of St Govens Light Vessel whilst on a voyage from Swansea to Lisbon.