In his letter No. 855 dated Lisbon 8 July 1941reported the German naval attaché in Portugal to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine at Berlin the marine traffic at Ponte Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal the British hospital ship Vasna. Arriving on 6 June 1941 coming from Freetown, Sierra Leone, departing to England on 7 June, art 25953, gross register tonnage 4,280 tons with on board 236 wounded or sick men returning from the war in Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and loaded oil and water. Since 1935 part of Italian East Africa and in 1941 captured by Allied troops.(1)
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1. Built by Alexander Stephen&Sons Ltd., Govan, Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 465 for the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., requisitioned still under construction on 29 May 1917, completed as hospital ship on 30 June 1917, after the war returned to owner and reconverted, requistioned in August 1939, converted into a hospital ship, commissioned as Hospital Ship No. 4 on 2 October and returned to owners in 1946. Finally broken up in 1951.
Source
Bundesarchive. RM 11-17. German naval attaché in Portugal.
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