The Italian steamer NEREIDE, 82m/1.598gt/10,5 knots; 21/02/1900 completed bty Rickmers Akt. Ges., Bremen, as SHANTUNG for Rickmers Reismuchlen Rhederei & Schiffbau AG., Bremerhaven; 1901 SHANTUNG, Nordeutscher Lloyd, Bremen; 1911 MARAS, Lim Apat, Muntok, Indonesia; 1913 MARAS, Sumatra Banka Stoomvaart Mij, Muntok, Indonesia; 1918 MARAS, British Government, London; 1919 MARAS, Sumatra Banka Stoomvaart Mij,Muntok, Indonesia; 1919 MARAS, Afscheepen Commissierak v/h J.F. Esser, Pasoerden, Indonesia; 1922 MARAS, Frans Hoynck, Pasoerden, Indonesia; 1925 NEREIDE, SA di Navigazione Neptunia, Genoa, Italy; 1937 SPORTIVO, Achille Lauro, Naples, Italy; 18/01/1943 SPORTIVO, as Italian naval auxiliary, Torpedoed and sunken by HMSsub UNSEEN, Lt M.L.C. Crawford, DSC, RN, 5 nm off Zuala, Libya, on passage Tripoli/Trapani.
Seen somewhere into an Italian port early 30s.
Unknown photographer. Photo given by her master to my father, an Douro/Leixões harbour pilot |
Rui Amaro
