SS Scillin
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SS Scillin was a 1,591 GRT cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1903, passed through a succession of owners of various nationalities and had a succession of different names. She was built as H. M. Pellatt but was successively called Memling, Nicole Le Borgne, Giuliana Pagan, and Scillin Secondo before becoming Scillin in 1937.
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Builder | Russell and Company, Greenock, Scotland |
Yard number | 511 |
Launched | 9 April 1903 |
Completed | 1903 |
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Fate | Sunk, 14 November 1942 |
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Length | 240.1 ft (73.2 m) |
Beam | 36.8 ft (11.2 m) |
Depth | 21.7 ft (6.6 m) |
Installed power | 196 NHP |
Propulsion | 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines; single screw |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
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By the time of the Second World War the ship was in Italian ownership. In 1942, a Royal Navy submarine sank her in the Mediterranean Sea when she was transporting over 800 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) from North Africa to Italy, killing nearly all of them. The United Kingdom kept the cause of her sinking secret until 1996, more than 50 years after the event.