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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