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SCOTTISH PRINCE / ATHENAI / PALERMO

BUILT IN 1910 BY SHORT BROTHERS IN SUNDERLAND. OPERATED BY FURNESS WITHY IN 1920. SHE WAS SOLD TO THE HELLENIC LINE IN 1937 AND MANAGED BY  P.CALLIMANOPOULOS. IN 1940 SHE WAS CAPTURED BY THE ITALIANS WHO RE-NAMED HER PALERMO, AND OPERATED HER UNTIL 1943 WHEN SHE WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE GERMANS, ( ITALY HAVING GIVEN IN TO THE ALLIED FORCES BY THIS TIME ) SHE WAS OPERATED BY THE GERMANS UNDER THE NAME OF PALERMO UNTIL 1943 WHEN SHE STRUCK A MINE OF TAGLIAMENTO. SHE WAS TAKEN TO RIJEKA, BUT SUNK BY ALLIED BOMBERS.

 

 


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