Name: | POITIERS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 1921 |
Completed: | 11/1921 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 223 |
Dimensions: | 4185grt, 2546nrt, 364.1 x 52.8 x 24.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23.5, 38 & 64 x 42ins), 347nhp |
Engines by: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
11/1921 | Cie Française des Chemins de Fer de Paris-Orléans, Nantes |
1920 | Managers Soc Maritime Auxiliaire de Transports |
1929 | Cie Delmas Frères & Vieljeux, La Rochelle |
1936 | Cie Delmas - Vieljeux, La Rochelle |
16/09/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | 16/09/1940: Scuttled by her crew off Bathurst (now Banjul, Gambia) |
On a voyage from Libreville to Dakar | |
Following an interception by HMS CUMBERLAND |