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MEMPHIS (1917)
Service dates: 1935-1938
Official number: 137839
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 03.1917
- Launched.
- 05.04.1917
- Completed as Smerdis for Thomas Hutchison at a cost of £18,834.
- 14.11.1918
- Valued at £50,000 following the death of Thomas Hutchison.
- 28.01.1919
- Ownership transferred to J & P Hutchison Ltd.
- 16.12.1922
- Foundered after fouling moorings, raised and renamed Memphis.
- 10.05.1934
- Ownership transferred to Moss Hutchison Line Ltd, Liverpool.
- 17.10.1935
- Moss Hutchison Line became a subsidiary of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 04.1938
- Sold and renamed Caid Kebir.
- 02.1953
- Sold and renamed Meziane.
- 19.04.1955
- Sank at the quayside at Rouen after collision, refloated and abandoned.
- 26.10.1957
- Arrived at the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands for shipbreaking.