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History
Name HMT City of Hankow
Builder/Built 1915 William Gray & Co. Ltd, Sunderland
Type cargo ship
Displacement 7,369 tons
Speed 12 knots


Remarks

Built for the Ellerman City Line Ltd of Glasgow. Sold in 1923 to Montgomery W & Co of London and then bought back by Ellerman Lines in 1937. On 18 Dec 1942, on a voyage from Liverpool to Beira with a cargo of military equipment, general and 2.5 million pounds sterling, was wrecked north of Saldanha Bay north of Cape Town, South Africa.

Soldiers carried

Middle East to Adelaide 13 February - 5 April 1942