ALBAN / STEPHEN

British pass/cargo liner ALBAN (1), imo 1135600/ 120m/ 5.223gt/ single screw/ 12kn; 11/03/1914 completed by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., Dundee, for Booth Steamship Co., Ltd., Liverpool; 12/11/1914 sailed on maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York and Manaus; 17/06/1917 missed by torpedo from U-82 while bound from New York to Liverpool, when northwest of Ireland; 10/05/1918 missed by torpedo from U-70 while in ballast passage from Liverpool to Newport; 24/09/1918 attacked by gunfire from U-153 but escaped by return of fire; 05/1935 sold to shipbreakers in Genoa; 01/1936 resold to Ugo Mussa for the Abyssinian war trade and renamed ZENA; 10/10/1941 damaged by Allied air attack of Kerkena island, Tunisia; 11/10/1941 torpedoed and sunk off Lampedusa.

British pass/cargo liner STEPHEN (1), imo 1131311/ 120m/ 4.444gt/ single screw/ 12kn; 12/1910 completed by R. W. Hawthorn Leslie Co., Ltd., Glasgow, for Booth Steamship Co., Ltd., Liverpool; 15/12/1934 arrived Briton Ferry for breaking up by W.W. Ward.
ALBAN and STEPHEN bound voyages to Europe and USA, however they are affected to River Amazon local traffic. Seen in the River Amazon.

Booth Line post card edition