| Name: | MENDOZA |
| Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 06/02/1920 |
| Completed: | 10/1920 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 1098 |
| Dimensions: | 8199grt, 4410nrt, 450.5 x 58.4 x 31.5ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Metropolitan-Vickers Rateau type, DR Geared |
| Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 15.0knots |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 10/1920 | Soc Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur, Marseille |
| 1941 | Ministry of War Transport (A Holt & Co), London |
| 01/11/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | Built for the France, Italy, Spain & South America service |
| Accommodation for 94 x 1st, 80 x 2nd Class passengers & a large number of emigrants | |
| 18/01/1941: Captured by HMS ASTURIAS when NE of Puerto Rico | |
| 01/11/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U178, 80 miles NE of Durban | |
| On a voyage from Mombasa to Durban carrying passengers & mail | |
| About 30 of the passengers & crew died |
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