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HMT Eboe
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History
Name HMT Eboe
Owner African Steamship Co Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd), Liverpol
Builder Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Company Ltd, Hebburn
Yard number 821
Launched 25 Sep 1912
Completed December 1912
Fate Torpedoed & sunk
General characteristics
Type Cargo ship
Tonnage 4,866 tons
Length 405 ft 1 in 9123.47m)
Beam 54 ft 1 in (16.49m)
Depth 23 ft 5 in (7.13m)
Propulsion single screw
Speed 11 knots (20.37 km/h)


Remarks

The third ship by this name owned by Elder Dempster & Company who operated as the African Steamship Company Ltd on the UK, East Africa route.

Sold in 1939 to Italian company Fratelli Rizzuto of Genoa and renamed Fortunestella. Sold again in 1941 to Flota Mercante del Estado of Buenos Aires and renamed Rio Tercero, she was sunk 100 miles (166 km) east of Atlantic City on 22 Jun 1942 by U-Boat U-202 on a voyage from New York to Buenos Aires.

Soldiers carried

Alexandria to Marseilles 17 - 22 March 1916