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PRUTH (1916)
Service dates: 1918-1923
Official number: 139109
Shipping lines: MERCANTILE STEAMSHIP COMPANY; HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 23.09.1915
- Launched.
- 01.1916
- Completed as Pruth for the Mercantile Steam Ship Company Ltd, London.
- 1917
- E Hain and Son appointed managers.
- 07.02.1918
- Takeover of the Mercantile Steam Ship Company Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.11.1923
- Transferred to The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
- 31.12.1923
- Wrecked on Natara Reef, Port Moresby whilst on a voyage from New York to New Zealand ports via Samarai and Port Moresby with general cargo.