| Name: | PROTESILAUS |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 29/10/1909 |
| Completed: | 01/1910 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 432 |
| Dimensions: | 9528grt, 6118nrt, 484.9 x 60.4 x 39.5ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (23, 38.5 & 65 x 48ins), 586nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 14.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 128014 |
| History: | |
| 13/01/1910 | China Mutual Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Alfred Holt & Co, managers), Liverpool |
| 13/09/1940 | Scuttled |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 12 x 1st class passengers & 580 emigrants |
| 21/01/1940: Damaged by a mine near Swansea, on voyage from Liverpool to Barry | |
| Mine was laid by German U-Boat U28 on 13/11/1939 | |
| Beached at the Mumbles to stop her sinking but she broke in two | |
| 20/07/1940: Arrived at Briton Ferry to be broken up | |
| Temporarily repaired, she was sent to Scapa Flow to be sunk as a blockship | |
| but developed serious leak en route and was scuttled by gunfire near Skerryvore |
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Lloyd's List, Tuesday, 02/11/1909