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TREVERBYN (1920)

Service dates: 1920-1941

Official number: 142576

Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

22.11.1919
Launched for the Shipping Controller as War Airman (having been laid down as War Maple)
01.1920
Purchased by The Hain Steamship Company Ltd and completed as Treverbyn
21.10.1941
Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U82, south-west of Cape Clear, in a position approximately 51°N-19°W. She was sailing in convoy SL 89 at the time of the sinking. Her crew of 38 and ten gunners were lost


Ship technical details (PDF)