| Name: | KNIGHT OF MALTA |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 02/10/1929 |
| Completed: | 12/1929 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 1360 |
| Dimensions: | 1553grt, 656nrt, 260.5 x 37.3 x 17.9ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (21, 34 & 56 x 39ins), 328nhp |
| Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 15.0knots |
| Reg Number: | 155985 |
| History: | |
| 21/01/1930 | Cassar Co Ltd, Malta |
| 07/1940 | The Admiralty |
| 02/03/1941 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Built for the passenger & mail service between Valetta and Syracuse |
| Accommodation for 63 x 1st Class & 30 x 2nd Class passengers | |
| 07/1940: Requisitioned by Admiralty as an armed boarding vessel, later stores carrier | |
| 02/03/1941: Wrecked 2 miles from Raz Azzaz, Libya | |
| On a voyage from Alexandria to Tobruk carrying troops. No casualties |
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