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SS ''Calabria'' was a passenger and cargo steamship. AG Weser built her for Norddeutscher Lloyd. She was launched as D/S ''Werra'' and completed in 1922. ("D/S" stands for ''Dampfschiff'' in German as "SS" stands for "steamship" in English.) In 1935 she was bought by Flotte Riunite Cosulich-Lloyd-Sabaudo Navigazione Generale, who renamed her ''Calabria''. In 1937 she was sold to Lloyd Triestino. In June 1940 the UK seized her and placed in the management of the British-India Steam Navigation Company. In December 1940 she was torpedoed and sunk. When she sank, all of her 360 passengers and crew lost their lives. The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was going to rename her ''Empire Inventor'', but she was sunk before this had been done. ==Building and career== The Allied Powers seized numerous NDL ships either during the First World War as prize ships or afterwards for war reparations. In the 1920s NDL replaced them with a new fleet from Bremer Vulkan, AG Vulcan Stettin and AG Weser. The first of the new ships were delivered in 1922; ''Werra'' among them. ''Werra'' was one of a series of six sister ships that AG Weser built for NDL. ''Werra'' and were completed in 1922;〔 , and in 1923 and in 1924. ''Werra'' had two three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines and twin screws.〔 Between them her two engines were rated at 604 NHP.〔 ''Werra'' was equipped with wireless direction finding and submarine signalling.〔 In 1935 NDL sold ''Werra'', ''Coblenz'' and ''Saarbrücken'' to Flotte Riunite Cosulich-Lloyd-Sabaudo which renamed them ''Calabria'', ''Sicilia'' and ''Toscana'' and registered them in Genoa.〔〔〔 In 1937 the three ships were sold to Lloyd Triestino,〔〔 which registered ''Calabria'' in Trieste.〔 On 10 June 1940 Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom. At the time ''Calabria'' was in drydock in Calcutta in British India, so on 11 June the British authorities seized her.〔 She was transferred to the MoWT, which appointed the British-India Steam Navigation Company to manage her.〔 The MoWT planned to rename her ''Empire Inventor'', but this intention was overtaken by events.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Calabria (1922)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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