Built under yard No 1283 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Newcastle, U.K. for the Byron Steam Ship Co. Ltd. London a daughter company of the National Steam Navigation Co. of Andes, Greece, commonly know as the National Greek Line.
19 October 1925 launched under the name PATRIS II.
Tonnage 3.903 grt. Dim. 105.17 x 14.48 x 7.28m.
Powered by triple expansion steam engine, 2.450 hp, twin screw, speed 14 knots. Oil fired boilers.
Passenger accommodation for about 100 first, 150 second, and could carry also deck passengers.
Part of hold No 3 was suitable for refrigerated cargo.
She was built for the regular service between Marseilles, Genoa, Piraeus, Alexandria, Cyprus and Beirut.
She carried the first two years the English flag but in 1928 transferred to Greek flag and registry.
June 1935 sold to the Rederi A/B Svenska Lloyd (Swedish Lloyd) at Göteborg and renamed PATRICIA.
Refitted by Eriksberg at Göteborg for the service between Göteborg and London.
Passenger accommodation then for 112 first, 80 second and 52 third class.
24 July 1935 sailed for the first time in this service from Göteborg.
When World War II broke out she was laid up in 1940 in Göteborg.
The same year chartered by the Swedish navy for a voyage Göteborg-Italy-Göteborg, with the crew for four destroyers bought in Italy.
1940 Sold to the Swedish Navy, and refitted in a depot ship for submarines, got accommodation for nine submarines a total of around 500 men, about 600 tons of steel were used. The cost for buying the ship and converting the vessel in depot ship was around £387.500. She was not renamed.
In this role she was used till 1970.
1971 Shifted to Försvarets Materielverk at Muskö.
October 1971 sold to Allan Nilsson Ab at Ystad for scrapping, arrived Ringön, Göteborg for scrapping by Skrot & Avfallsprodukter.
September 1972 sold to Ab Jämsidan at Göteborg, renamed GELE.
October 1972 resold to a German scrap dealer, after de scrap price in the Swedish market did fall.
She was scrapped by a Spanish scrap yard the same year.
Maldive Islands 1997 1997 1r sg2681, scott 2222.
Source: Watercraft Philately Vol. 44 page 1. Merchant Ships of the world in color 1910-1929 by Dunn.
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