MV Deucalion

Deucalion
History
United Kingdom
NameDeucalion
NamesakeDeucalion
OwnerOcean SS Co Ltd
Operator A Holt & Co
Port of registryLiverpool
BuilderHawthorn, Leslie & Co, Hebburn
Yard number568
Launched29 July 1930
CompletedDecember 1930
Identification
FateScuttled, 12 August 1942
General characteristics
Typerefrigerated cargo ship
Tonnage7,740 GRT, 4,790 NRT, 8,880 DWT
Length460.0 ft (140.2 m)
Beam59.4 ft (18.1 m)
Depth29.3 ft (8.9 m)
Decks2
Installed power1,307 NHP, 8,600 bhp
Propulsion
  • 2 × screws
  • 2 × four-stroke diesel engines
Speed16 kn (30 km/h)
Sensors and
processing systems
ArmamentDEMS
Notessister ships: Agamemnon, Menestheus, Memnon, Ajax

MV Deucalion was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship that was built in England in 1930 and sunk in the Second World War in 1942. She survived being damaged in the Liverpool Blitz in December 1940 and took part in two Malta convoys to relieve the Siege of Malta. She survived air attacks during the first of these, Operation Substance, in July 1941 but was lost on her second Malta Convoy, Operation Pedestal, in August 1942. This was the third of five Blue Funnel ships to be named after Deucalion, a mythological king of Thessaly in Ancient Greece.