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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)