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Sunday, February 19, 1939 @ 1600
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only 		PRETORIA (1936-1939 Passenger Liner 548 feet (168m) long of Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie, Hamburg : 1939-1945 U-boat Depot Ship: Own Page

Advert for Deutsche Ost- Afrika Linie's PRETORIA sailing Southampton to Cape Town in February 1939
Ship's locationSouthampton (England, UK)
Sailing forCape Town (South Africa)

 

 

DEUTSCHE  OST-AFRIKA  LINIE

  

(GERMAN  AFRICAN  LINES)


SOUTHAMPTON  -  CAPE TOWN

In  15  Days by the new

Express  Steamers

PRETORIA

&  WINDHUK

 ( 17,000  tons  gross )

NEXT  SAILINGS

s.s.  PRETORIA  -  Feb 19

s.s.  WINDHUK  -  Mar 19

 

HOLIDAY  TRIPS  TO

CANARY  ISLANDS


Wm.  H.  MULLER  &  CO.  (London)  Ltd.,

66 – 68  Haymarket,  London  S. W. 1

or  Local  Agents

 

   A very full history of PRETORIA is on Wikipedia “TS PRETORIA”

Essentially 1936-1939 Ocean passenger liner

                   1939-1940 U-boat Depot Ship

                   1940-1945 Hospital Ship

                   1945-1958 Troop Ship as EMPIRE DOON / EMPIRE ORWELL

                   1958-1980 Pilgrim Ship as GUNUNG DJATI

                   1980-1981 Troop Ship

                   1981-1984 Naval Accommodation Ship

                   1987 Scrapped