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Tabarka

  • Date built: 1909
  • Builder: Wrf. voorh. Rijkee & Co., Rotterdam
  • Type: Steamship
  • Purpose: Cargo
  • Weight: 2886 ton
  • Length: 326.8ft
  • Beam: 44.1ft

History of Tabarka

Built as the SS Pollux for N.V. Koninkl. Nederland. Stoomboot Mij., Amsterdam

March 1918 to 1919 U.S. Gov't. requisition - operated by U.S. Shipping Board under US flag)

1931 taken over by the French Union Maritime Auxiliaire S.A. (Union Maritime S.A.), Rouen & renamed SS Tabarka

1937 sold to (Soc. Anon. de Gérance et d'Armement), Rouen.

July 1940 requisitioned at Falmouth.

1940 Ministry of Shipping (G. Heyn & Sons, Ltd., mgrs.), Belfast - later Watts, Watts & Co., Ltd., mgrs.

1941 sunk as a blockship in Kirk Sound.

1944 Raised and re sunk as a blockship in Burra Sound.

  • Nationality: British
  • Date built: 1909
  • Type: Steamship
  • Builder: Wrf. voorh. Rijkee & Co., Rotterdam
  • Purpose: Cargo
  • Weight: 2886 ton
  • Length: 326.8ft
  • Beam: 44.1ft
  • Cause Lost: Ran aground and started leaking
  • Date Scuttled: 23rd March 1941 (salvaged in 1944)
  • Engine: 3-cylinder triple-expansion engine, single propeller
  • Registration: Rouen