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Andree

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1916 Andree Green, Holland & Sons
1938 Granicos M.J. Lyras & Co.
1923 Pencisely Hopkins Saunders & Co.
1934 Pencisely Penhill Shipping Co. Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from Rio de Janeiro for Freetown, Sierra Leone Granicos was torpedoed (Italian Giuseppe Finzi Mario Rossetto) & sank 430 miles SW of Monrovia, Liberia on 28 March 1943. One survivor was captured & taken aboard the submarine & another was picked up by the motorship Leighton. 30 were lives lost.