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Name: WAR PUMA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/03/1918
Completed: 05/1918
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1065
Dimensions: 5241grt, 3142nrt, 400.0 x 52.0 x 28.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 142395
History:
05/1918 The Shipping Controller (J Warrack & Co), London
1919 Sefton SS Co Ltd (HE Moss & Co), London; renamed MOUNT BERWYN
1925 Soc Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur, Marseille
1925 Renamed MONT GENÈVRE
1934 AD Callinicos, Piraeus; renamed NEION
22/06/1940 Sank
Comments: 22/06/1940: Torpedoed & Sunk by U-Boat U38 in 47.09N - 04.17W
On a voyage from New Orleans and St Nazaire to Falmouth