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Copyright/attribution: © P&O Heritage Collection
ETRIB (1919)
Service dates: 1935-1942
Official number: 140639
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 16.05.1919
- Launched as War Shannon for the Shipping Controller.
- 07.1919
- Completed as British Coast for Coast Lines Ltd, Liverpool.
- 1923
- Renamed Etrib by the Moss Steamship Company, Liverpool.
- 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 subsidiary of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 14.06.1942
- Torpedoed and sunk by U552 at 43°18’N-17°38’W on a voyage from Cartagena and Gibraltar to Liverpool with a loss of four lives.