Daily Event for January 11, 2010


Jan 11, 1921 the passenger/cargo ship Calchas was launched at the yard of Workman & Clark in Belfast for the Blue Funnel Line. She, like the line's previously named ship in the first war, was lost to a German submarine. A third Calchas built for the Blue Funnel Line in 1947 was destroyed by fire.
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SS Calchas seen at Liverpool, England.

Photo courtesy of The Allen Collection

 




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