Name: | CUBA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 20/11/1922 |
Completed: | 04/1923 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1108 |
Dimensions: | 11337grt, 6326nrt, 476.0 x 62.3 x 35.1ft |
Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 15.5knots |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1941: 171463) |
History: | |
04/1923 | Cie Générale Transatlantique, St Nazaire |
16/06/1941 | Ministry of Shipping / War Transport (Cunard - White Star Ltd), London |
06/04/1945 | Sank |
Comments: | Accommodation for 280 x 1st, 50 x 2nd & 250 x 3rd Class passengers; |
Plus space for 500 x emigrants | |
24/10/1940: Captured by HMS MORETON BAY west | |
of the Canary Islands and taken to Freetown | |
06/04/1945: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U1195, 35 miles SW of Portsmouth | |
On a voyage from Le Havre to Southampton |
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