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HATASU (1921)
Service dates: 1935-1941
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 30.09.1921
- Launched.
- 11.1921
- Completed as Hatasu for James Moss & Co (Moss Line) Ltd.
- 10.05.1934
- Her owners and majority shareholders, James Moss & Co (Moss Line) Ltd were merged to form Moss Hutchison Line.
- 17.10.1935
- Moss Hutchison Line became a P&O subsidiary company.
- 02.10.1941
- Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U431 600 nautical miles east of Cape Race in the Atlantic with the loss of 40 lives.