CRAIG, TAYLOR & COMPANY LTD., STOCKTON-ON-TEES

Name DEE
Type Cargo
Yard Number 85
Launched 11/03/1902
Completed 04/1902
Off. Number 113903
Engine builder North East Marine Engineering Co., Sunderland
Engine type T. 3cyl.
GRT 1871
Length (feet) 282
Beam (feet) 38.6
First owner Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Ltd., London
History 1917 John Hall Jr. & Co. Ltd., London
1918 renamed CID
1920 CAHIRACON, Limerick S.S. Co. Ltd., Limerick
1924 GARTMORE, Gart Line Ltd. (Whimster & Co.), Glasgow
1935 ANNA MADRE, A. Alfino & figli, Catania
1937 PEUCETA, Soc. Armamento Pugliese, Bari
1937 Achille Lauro, Naples
Fate 21/12/1940 torpedoed by aircraft from H.M.S. ILLUSTRIOUS east of Kerkennah Island (34.39N 11.48), on passage Palermo for Tripoli.

Believed to be the vessel on the right in this view from the Tees Conservancy Commissioner's handbook for 1906

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