No.253 Metagama launched in 1914

12,420grt for Canadian Pacific from Barclay Curle, Glasgow

Scrapped Bo’ness 1934

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No.254 Fushimi Maru launched in 1914

10,940grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki

Husimi Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK

Torpedoed off Japan 1943

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No.255 Yasaka Maru launched in 1914

10,932grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Kawasaki, Kobe

Torpedoed by U38 off Port Said 1915

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No.256 Belgenland launched in 1914

27,132grt for Red Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Belgic 1917 White Star Line

Belgenland 1923 Red Star Line

Columbia 1935 Atlantic Transport Line

Scrapped in Bo’ness 1936

Image from Steve Walker Color

Belgic in early service

Belgenland leaving Antwerp in 1930

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No.257 Ausonia launched in 1915

11,300grt for for Società Italiana di Servizi Marittimi (SITMAR) from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

There were plans to convert her to an aircraft carrier.

Never completed, broken up in 1922

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No.258 Aotearoa launched in 1915

14,744 grt for Union SS Co of New Zealand by Fairfield, Glasgow

HMS Avenger 1916 Royal Navy

Torpedoed by UB 69 at Scapa Flow 1917

http://naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-08-HMS_Avenger.htm & The John Oxley Library

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No.259 San Gennaro launched in 1915

12,087grt for Sicula Americana from Palmers, Jarrow

Colombo 1921 Navigazione Generale Italiana

Scuttled Massawa 1941

Painting from George Duncan

As a war transport in the Suez Canal

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No.260 Esperia launched in 1915

11,398grt for Soc Ital di Servizi Marittimi from Soc Ersercicio Bacini, Riva Trigoso

Torpedoed by HMS Unique, Mediterranean 1941

Image attribution: Paolo Piccone, Archivio Stefano Cioglia Cagliari & Rich Turnwald

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No.1411 Miyazaki Express launched in 1996

11,931GT for Marine Express from Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki

Dharma Ferry V 2022 DLU Ferry

IMO: 9145865

Image: Kenro Oshita, Shinichi Awa and rofer.id

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No.1412 Tacoma launched in 1996

12,864GT for State of Washington from Todd Pacific, Seattle

IMO: 9133977

Image attribution: Jackie Pritchard & Chas Hitz on Marine Traffic

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