Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 526a by J.L.Thompson & Sons Ltd., North Sands, Sunderland, U.K for Cie Generale Transatlantique, Le Havre, France.
18 December 1919 launched under the name MICHIGAN.
Tonnage 6.419 gross, 4.023 net, 6.152 dwt., dim. 130.1 x 92.4 x 13.8m., length bpp. 125.8m.
Powered by a 3-cyl triple expansion steam-engine, manufactured by J. Dickinson & Sons, 3.600 hp., one propeller, speed 10 knots.
April 1920 delivered to owners.
1942 Arrested by the USA Government, managed by the War Shipping Administration.
1950 Sold to Maritime Atychides S.A., Panama, renamed EVANTHIA.
1951 Sold to Poland and refitted on a Polish yard.
11 January 1952 transferred to Chechofracht, Czechoslovakia and renamed in REPUPLIKA.
Used in a service between Europe and the Far East, her first sailing for her new owners was in May 1953.
On her return voyage from the Far East she came in a typhoon, and stranded on the Chinese coast.
Under repair the following 12 months
1959 Taken over by the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping (COS) at Prague.
27 February 1962 laid up at Trieste, and August 1962 broken up there.
Czechoslovakia 1989 50h sg 2969, scott 2736
Source: Navicula. Register of Merchant ships completed in 1920. Info received from COS.