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Name: HELLAS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/12/1905
Completed: 02/1906
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 131
Dimensions: 1380grt, 849nrt, 260.0 x 38.0 x 15.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (19, 31 & 51 x 36ins), 156nhp
Engines by: George Clark Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
02/1906 D/S Hellas (Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co), Drammen
1910 Bruusgaard, Kiøsteruds D/S A/S, Drammen
1923 North China Steamship Co Ltd, Tientsin; renamed PEI HUA
1942 Government of Japan; renamed HOKKA GO
23/03/1945 Sank
Comments: 1942: Siezed by the Japanese Government
23/03/1945: Sank during a US Army air attack off the coast of
Chekiang Province at position 29.14N – 122.03E