| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Indra Line (Thomas B. Royden & Co.) |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
| 1915 EURYPYLUS - 1938 TRADE - 1939 BOTAVON |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
30/08/1915 China Mutual Steam Navigation Company Ltd., and later renamed EURYPYLUS.
1938 for £17,500, to the Continental Transit Company, London, and renamed TRADE.
1939 for £20,000, to the Board of Trade, (Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd., managers), and renamed BOTAVON.
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| Vessel history |
| 11/05/1918 Collided with and sank the British steamer CLAN MACKAY (6,580g./12), 520 miles south west from the Scillies. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Air Attack 03/05/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
02/5/1942 Whilst “Commodore ship” in convoy PQ 15 on a voyage from Middlesbrough via Reykjavik to Murmansk was damaged by an air launched torpedo in a position 73.02N., 19.46E., N. W. of North Cape.
03/05/1942 Sunk by HMS BADSWORTH.
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