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Name: SIDI BEL ABBES
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 05/09/1929
Completed: 11/1929
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1358
Dimensions: 4392grt, 2168nrt, 368.0 x 50.1 x 23.5ft
Engines: 6 x steam turbines, SR Geared
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 16.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
11/1929 Soc Generale de Transports Maritimes a Vapeur, Marseilles
20/04/1943 Sank
Comments: 20/04/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U565 60 miles west of Oran
She was operating as a troop ship carring 1100 Senegalese troops from
Casablanca to Oran. 611 troops and crew died.


Photo courtesy of Richard Cox