SS Calabria (1922)
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SS Calabria was a passenger and cargo steamship. AG Weser built her for Norddeutscher Lloyd. She was launched as D/S Werra and completed in 1922. ("D/S" stands for Dampfschiff in German as "SS" stands for "steamship" in English.)
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Builder | AG Weser, Bremen[1] |
Yard number | 324[4] |
Completed | 1922[1] |
Out of service | 8 December 1940[5] |
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Fate | Torpedoed and sunk, 8 December 1940[5] |
Notes | sister ships: Coblenz, Fulda, Saarbrücken, Trier, Weser |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo and passenger liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 458.7 ft (139.8 m)[1] p/p |
Beam | 57.6 ft (17.6 m)[1] |
Depth | 30.8 ft (9.4 m)[1] |
Decks | 8[1] |
Installed power | 604 NHP[1] |
Propulsion | 2 × triple-expansion steam engines; twin screw[1] |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h)[4] |
Crew | 129 officers and men, plus 1 DEMS gunner (1940)[5] |
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In 1935 she was bought by Flotte Riunite Cosulich-Lloyd-Sabaudo Navigazione Generale, who renamed her Calabria. In 1937 she was sold to Lloyd Triestino.
In June 1940 the UK seized her and placed in the management of the British-India Steam Navigation Company. In December 1940 she was torpedoed and sunk. When she sank, all of her 360 passengers and crew lost their lives. The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was going to rename her Empire Inventor, but she was sunk before this had been done.