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Name: KANDAHAR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/08/1913
Completed: 09/1913
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 917
Dimensions: 6415grt, 4153nrt, 434.6 x 55.6 x 31.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (25.5, 43.5 & 76 x 51ins), 568nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 133318
History:
06/09/1913 Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd, North Shields
1914 Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co Ltd, North Shields
1926 Renamed CITY OF PERTH
26/03/1943 Sank
Comments: 26/03/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U431, 60 miles WxN of Oran
On a voyage from Bone to the Mersey in ballast
Some records state that the U-Boat was in fact U77


Above photo as CITY OF PERTH is courtesy of Photoship