Glenorchy
1942
(Santa Rosa Ships P-14)
- Type: General Cargo / Passenger
- Displacement: 8,982 tons
- Dimensions: 507 x 66.5 x 30.5 ft.
- Machinery: Diesel, twin screw = 18 knots
- Passengers: 24
- Builder: Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering, Hong Kong, 1939
- Service: Took part in Operation Pedestal - the relief of Malta, Aug 1942. On 13 Aug she was attacked by German Ju88 aircraft and damaged, then torpedoed by Italian MTB MAS 31 and sunk, 5 miles NW of Kelibia lighthouse, Tunisia; 7 dead, 74 POW.
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