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SS ''Mohamed Ali El-Kebir'', formerly SS ''Teno'', was one of a pair of steam turbine ocean liners built in Scotland in 1922 for the Chilean company CSAV. She and her sister ship ''Aconcagua'' ran between Valparaíso and New York ''via'' the Panama Canal until 1932, when CSAV was hit by the Great Depression and surrendered the two ships to the Scottish shipbuilder Lithgows to clear a debt. In 1935 the Egyptian company KML bought and renamed both ships and put them on routes across the Mediterranean. ''Teno'' was renamed ''Mohamed Ali El-Kebir'' after a former Egyptian monarch. In 1940 the British Government requisitioned both liners and had them converted into troop ships. Within months of being converted, ''Mohamed Ali El-Kebir'' was sunk in the Western Approaches by a German submarine with the loss of 96 people. However, her escort drove away the submarine and rescued 766 survivors. ==''Teno''== In April 1920 the Chilean Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) ordered a pair of passenger and cargo liners for service between Valparaíso and New York ''via'' the Panama Canal. Construction was delayed, the ships were not completed until the latter part of 1922, and CSAV lost money as a result. The first ship, ''Aconcagua'', was launched on 11 February 1922 and completed in August. Her sister ship was launched on 5 September 1922,〔 completed in December and reached Chile in January 1923. She was to be named after the Chilean city of Boroa, but she was launched as ''Teno'' after the Chilean city of that name about south of Valparaíso. The two ships were built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Each had 18 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of that heated six single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . These fed steam at 215 lbf/in2 to four steam turbines that drove twin propeller shafts by single-reduction gearing. The turbines had a combined rating of 1,469 NHP〔 and gave the ship a speed of . By the time ''Aconcagua'' and ''Teno'' entered service they faced strong competition from Grace Line, and CSAV reported losses in 1922 and 1923. However, from 1922 the Chilean government introduced protection measures for Chilean companies operating shipping services along the country's -long coast, and in 1923 global shipping rates stabilised. The Wall Street Crash of October 1929 started the Great Depression, which sharply reduced the export market for Chilean mining products and hence the country's ability to buy goods from overseas. CSAV lost trade, and especially on its Valparaíso – New York route, so in June 1931 the company suspended the service. It sold ''Aconcagua'' and ''Teno'' to Lithgows of Port Glasgow, and in August 1932 both ships returned to Scotland. ''Aconcagua'' was sold to William Hamilton and Company, run by Lord Ernest Hamilton,〔 but ''Teno'' was laid up at the Kyles of Bute, first at Kames, Argyll and then off Tighnabruaich.〔 Lowden Conner and Company of Liverpool were appointed to manage both ships. 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 Mohamed Ali El-Kebir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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