Pictured as Schwarzwald

Pictured as Wells City

Life after Saint Line

Master

Date

Left

Destination

A Ellis

4/1948



Career Summary

1922 Built in Germany for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), who named her Schwarzwald.

1935 H. Vogemann bought her and renamed her Rheingold.

Vessel

Built

Tonnage

Official No

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

St Ina

1922

4957

167412

Deutsche Werft

Hamburg

Duncan Stewart

Glasgow

Triple Expansion Steam


1

St Ina

GRDZ

In October 1939 a Royal Navy cruiser captured her, and the United Kingdom government renamed her as the Empire ship Empire Mariner. She survived numerous transatlantic convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic.

In 1946 South American Saint Line bought her and renamed her Saint Ina.

In 1948 Bristol City Line bought her and renamed her Wells City.

In 1951 the Pakistani-owned East & West Steamship Company bought her and renamed her Fausta.

She was scrapped in Pakistan in 1964.

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