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Tuesday, 6 August 2024

British submarine depot ship HMS Lucia (1907) 1916-1946 (1951)

Launched by Furness, Withy, Middleton with yard number 307 for account of German HAPAG as passenger-cargo ship Spreewald on 21 November 1907, captured by British in 1914, renamed Lucia in in 1915, converted into a submarine depot ship in 1916, in Second World War after 1942 repair ship for surface ships, sold for to the merchant shipping in 1946, renamed Sinai as a Panama registered cargo ship in 1948 and broken up in May 1951. 

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