| Name: | ELPENOR |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 14/09/1916 |
| Completed: | 01/1917 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 471 |
| Dimensions: | 7601grt, 4824nrt, 455.3 x 56.3 x 32.5ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (31, 51.5 & 86 x 60ins), 835nhp |
| Engines by: | North-East Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 14.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 137536 |
| History: | |
| 03/02/1917 | China Mutual Steam Navigation Co Ltd (A Holt & Co, managers), Liverpool |
| 1935 | Glen Line Ltd, Liverpool; renamed GLENFINLAS |
| 1947 | China Mutual Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Liverpool; renamed ELPENOR |
| 1950 | Glen Line Ltd, Liverpool; renamed GLENFINLAS |
| 10/06/1952 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 01/1917: Requisitioned for troop ship requirements |
| 01/1919: Handed over to her owners for the first time | |
| 1922: Collided with INABA MARU at Kobe | |
| 06/04/1941: Damaged by air attack off Harwich. Subsequently repaired | |
| 11/1942: Bombed, set on fire and settled on the bottom in Bougie harbour, Algeria | |
| Refloated and towed to Oran for temporary repairs & then to Gibraltar | |
| Permanent repairs at Sunderland. Funnel shortened | |
| 10/06/1952: Broken up at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Co |
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