Sjoa - Rinda
1917-1917/ 1920-1939 General cargo
Buildingyard: Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd., Sunderland
Built year: 1917
Yard no: 659
Tonnage: GRT: 6029/ NET: 3820/ TDW: 9430
Dims: LOA: 405,3/ BR: 53,5/ DR: 33,5ft
Machinery: 3-cyl tripleexp steam engine by J. Dickinson & Sons Ltd.,
Sunderland
IHP: 2500
Speed: 11,5 knots
Passengers: 4
Photo:
04.04.1917: Launched as SJOA
14.12.1917: Completed. renamed APPLYBY. Reg in London. Upon the 1WW requisition placed under management of Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd., London
Reg owner: Norfolk & North American Steam Shipping Co Ltd. Price paid: NOK 1.518.766,06
16.06.1920: Returned to service for Wilh. Wilhelmsen
00.09.1939: Mined off Terschelling, Netherlands. Brought to port and repaired
30.05.1941: Torpedoed and sunk off Liberia in pos 06.52N, 16.25W by German submarine U-38. On passage from Haifa and Table Bay to Freetown and
UK with general cargo. Thirteen of her crewmembers were lost.