ATHENIC ( 1st )

BUILT BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST FOR THE WHITE STAR LINE. LAUNCHED IN 1901 AND PUT ON THE JOINT WHITE STAR / SHAW SAVILL & ALBION SERVICE TO NEW ZEALAND, SHE WAS SOLD IN 1927 AND RE-NAMED ' PELAGOS ' BY HER NEW NORWEGIAN OWNERS.SHE WAS CONVERTED INTO A WHALING VESSEL. IN 1941 SHE WAS CAPTURED BY THE GERMAN RAIDER 'PINGUIN' AND OPERATED BY THE GERMANS IN THE SAME CAPACITY UNTIL SHE WAS IN  SUNK 1944 SHE WAS  RAISED AFTER THE WAR AND RETURNED TO HER NORWEGIAN OWNERS WHO OPERATED HER UNTIL 1962 WHEN SHE WAS SCRAPPED IN GERMANY.SHE WAS SISTER SHIP TO THE CORINTHIC AND THE IONIC.

KANDELFELS / PINGUIN

PINGUIN WAS A GERMAN MERCHANT RAIDER COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN KRUDER, SHE STARTED OUT LIFE AS HANSA LINES KANDELFELS. SHE REEKED HAVOC IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND SOUTH ATLANTIC. SHE SANK THIRTY-TWO VESSELS, IN A CRUISE LASTING ONLY ELEVEN MONTHS. SHE SANK SHAW SAVILL & ALBIONS 'MAIMOA' AND CAPTURED THE 'PELAGOS' ( FORMERLY THE WHITE STAR/SHAW SAVILL & ALBION ' ATHENIC' ) IN 1940 SHE LAID MINES ALONG THE VICTORIA COAST, AUSTRALIA ONE OF THE MINES SUNK THE AMERICAN VESSEL 'CITY OF RAYVILLE',  A BRITISH WARSHIP WAS ALSO MINED. SHE WAS EVENTUALLY SUNK BY H.M.S CORNWALL NEAR THE SEYCHELLES IN 1941. 340 OF THE PINGUIN CREW DIED ALONG WITH 200 PRISONERS THAT SHE WAS CARRYING. 60 ODD CREW MEMBERS AND 20 PRISONERS WERE PICKED UP FROM THE SEA BY CORNWALL ( SHELLS FROM  CORNWALL HAD HIT THE REMAINING MINES THAT PINGUIN HAD ONBOARD, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR HER BLOWING UP ) THE BOTTOM PICTURE SHOWS PENGUIN DISGUISED AS THE GREEK MERCHANTMAN 'KASSOS'