Category:Kawsar (ship, 1923)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Passenger ship
• Built by: Ansaldo Shipyards, Sestri Ponente, Genoa
• Yard No: 249
• Keel laid: 1920
• Launched: 1923.06.24
• Completed: 1923
• Length over all: 130.86 m
• Beam: 16.00 m
• GRT: 8139, later 7778
• Sister ship: Nazario Sauro
• Registro Italiano
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• www.naval-history.net

History[edit]

• 1923 Named Ammiraglio Bettolo; Flag: Italy
  • Call sign: NCYA
  • Port: Genoa
  • Owner: Societá di Navigazione Transatlantica Italiana
• 1934 Renamed Kawsar; Flag: Egypt
  • Owner: Societé Misr de Navigation Maritime
• 1942.04.11 Bombed by Luftwaffe at 31.34N, 32.14E, towed back to Port Said and beached
• 1947 (or 1946) Scrapped