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Name: WAR SUMMIT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/12/1918
Completed: 08/1919
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 213
Dimensions: 3082grt, 1832nrt, 331.3 x 46.9 x 23.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 310nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 143125
History:
08/1919 The Shipping Controller (J Coull & Sons), London
1920 Soc Anon di Navigazione Adriatica, Venice; renamed SAN MARCO
1924 Lloyd Adriatico Soc di Nav, Venice
1929 Soc Anon Cooperativa di Nav ‘Garibaldi’, Genoa
01/06/1941 Sank
Comments: A standard ‘C’ type cargo ship
01/06/1941: Torpedoed & sunk by HMS CLYDE, S of Serpentara Island
On a voyage from Civitavecchia to Cagliari.