British cargo ship that took part in two Malta convoys
Deucalion
History
United Kingdom
Name
Deucalion
Namesake
Deucalion
Owner
Ocean SS Co Ltd
Operator
A Holt & Co
Port of registry
Liverpool
Builder
Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Hebburn
Yard number
568
Launched
29 July 1930
Completed
December 1930
Identification
UK official number 162329
until 1933: code letters LGQS
call sign GSWR
Fate
Scuttled, 12 August 1942
General characteristics
Type
refrigerated cargo ship
Tonnage
7,740 GRT, 4,790 NRT, 8,880 DWT
Length
460.0 ft (140.2 m)
Beam
59.4 ft (18.1 m)
Depth
29.3 ft (8.9 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
1,307 NHP, 8,600 bhp
Propulsion
2 × screws
2 × four-stroke diesel engines
Speed
16 kn (30 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems
by 1934: wireless direction finding
by 1936: echo sounding device
Armament
DEMS
Notes
sister ships: Agamemnon, Menestheus, Memnon, Ajax
MV Deucalion was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship that was built in England in 1930 and sunk in the Second World War in 1942. She survived being damaged in the Liverpool Blitz in December 1940 and took part in two Malta convoys to relieve the Siege of Malta. She survived air attacks during the first of these, Operation Substance, in July 1941 but was lost on her second Malta Convoy, Operation Pedestal, in August 1942. This was the third of five Blue Funnel ships to be named after Deucalion, a mythological king of Thessaly in Ancient Greece.
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