MV Abosso
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MV Abosso was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the flagship of Elder Dempster Lines. In peacetime she ran scheduled services between Liverpool and West Africa. In the Second World War she was a troop ship, running between the United Kingdom, West Africa, and South Africa.
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Name | Abosso |
Owner | Elder Dempster Lines[1] |
Operator | Elder Dempster Lines[1] |
Port of registry | Liverpool[1] |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead[1] |
Yard number | 1006[2] |
Launched | 19 June 1935[3] |
Completed | 8 September 1935[3] |
Maiden voyage | 16 October 1935[3] |
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Fate | Torpedoed and sunk 29 October 1942[4] |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger liner |
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Length | 460.8 ft (140.5 m)[1] p/p |
Beam | 65.2 ft (19.9 m)[1] |
Depth | 31.5 ft (9.6 m)[1] |
Decks | 3 plus shade deck[1] |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | Diesel engines, twin screw[1] |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h)[4] |
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Abosso was built in 1935 and sunk by German submarine U-575 in 1942, killing 362 of the 393 people aboard. She carried the same name as an earlier Elder Dempster ship, SS Abosso, which had been built in 1912 and sunk by the submarine U-43 in 1917.[8]