Dempo
1940
(Welt der Schiffsmodel WDS-7c)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 17,024 tons
- Dimensions: 574 x 70 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: Two Sulzer diesels, twin screw, 14,000 BHP = 18 knots
- Passengers: 634 (236 first class, 280 second class, 70 third class, 48 fourth class)
- Crew: 335
- Builder: Scheepsbouw Maatschappij "De Schelde", Flushing, The Netherlands, 1931
- Service: Built for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd Line (Dutch flag) Rotterdam-East Indies service. Maiden voyage Mar 1931. Sailed Rotterdam and Southampton to Lisbon, Tangier, Gibraltar, Marseilles, Port Said, Colombo, Sabang, Belawan, Singapore and Batavia. Taken over for service as an Allied troopship 1941, and converted at Liverpool in March with accommodation for 2,000 troops. Participated in Allied landings at Salerno. Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U 371 off Algeria, 17 Mar 1944, while on passage from Naples to Oran; no lives lost.
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