German cargo ship Bogota 1937-1942 (Teiho Maru 1942-1945, Bogota Maru 1945-1950, Bogota 1950-1955, Astrid Sven 1955-1964, Alcyone 1964-1969)

Laid down for account of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, Bremen, Germany by Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser A.G. Wesermünde, Germany with yard number 259 in 1937, launched on 17 December 1937, handed over on 19 March 1938, call sign DOTR, negotiations with the Chilean government in 1941 failed, required by the German Kriegsmarine and became a supply ship on 28 July 1941 while lying at Yokohama, Japan, chartered by the Teikoku Senpaku K.K., operated by the Kawasaki Kosen K.K., Kobe, Japan as the Teiho Maru on 10 September 1942, became a supply vessel for the German and Italian cargo submarines in 1943, seized by Japanese forces on 5 May 1945 at Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, on 6 May 1945 as the auxiliary minesweeper tender Bogota Maru in Japanese naval service, taken over by the Allied forces in September 1945, after undergoing repairs used by the Allied Repatriation Service, given back to the Norddeutsche Lloyd in July 1950 and serving for the Roland Line Schiffahrts Gesellschaftw as she sold on 28 May 1955 to Oluf Svendsen, Copenhagen, Denmark and renamed Astrid Sven, as the Phrygia since December 1957 of Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus, Greece since 1964 as Alcyone of the Greek company Alcyone S.A., Piraeus, Greece and sunk on 111 May 1964 100 kilometres north of St. Louis, Senegal after she was burned out two days earlier. Dimensions 249.0 x 34.7 x 14.0 feet, deadweight 1.600 tons, gross tonnage 1.230 tons, under deck 903 tons and net tonnage 614 tons. Twin screw. Fitted out with 322 nhp diesel; machinery allowing a speed of 13 knots.