Glaucus
1921
(Albatros AL-48)
- Type: Freighter
- Displacement: 7,586 grt / 9,280 dwt
- Dimensions: 477-6 x 56-4 x 28-3 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbine, single screw = 14 knots
- Passengers: 12
- Crew:
- Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Co., Newcastle, England 1921
- Service: Completed for Ocean S.S.Co., part of the Blue Funnel Line of Alfred Holt & Co. In May 1943 she collided with Shell's Macuba while in convoy. Damages were awarded five years later. Laid up Jul 1955 and broken up later that year. Six sister ships Eumaeus, Meriones, Rhexenor, Automedon, Autolycus, and Adrastus; all but the last were sunk in World War 2 by Italian or German action.
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