Usko ex Nivaa 1917

503

USKO    (I)

1933 - 1939

General Cargo Steamer,  Singledecker

Call: OHSQ

1,841 GRT, 1,020 NRT, 2,400 dwt

79.52 x 13.25 x 5.41 m

Triple Steam Engine 3 cy.

by the Shipbuilders

 1,250 IHP     -  knots

1917:

Laid down by American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, Ohio (#470) as WAR OAK for the Shipping Controller, London to be managed by Cunard S.S. Co.

3.8.1917:   

Requisitioned by U.S. Government.

2.1918:

Completed and delivered to U.S. Shipping Board, Cleveland, Ohio. as LAKE OTISCO.

1920:

Sold to International Coal Transport Corp., New York.

1923:

Sold to Compagnie Nationale de Navigation, Le Havre, and renamed FLOREAL.

5.2.1929:

Sold to Dampskibsselskabet Hetland A/S, (H.P.P. Ladegaard), København, and renamed NIVAA.

1930:

T. Basse was appointed manager of the owners.

28.2.1933:

Acquired by Höyrylaiva O/Y Usko, (Tmi John Nurminen, Jalmari Penttilä), Rauma /Raumo (503), and renamed USKO.

1939:

Sold to Laevaühing Meero, (J. Pruun), Tallinn, and renamed MEERO.

1940:

After the occupation of Estonia on 16–17 June by  the Soviet troops and the annexation of Estonia on 6 Aug. with the USSR., Meero was  transferred to the state-owned Estonian Shipping Co., Tallinn in connection with the nationalization of all private property in Estonia.

1941:

Requisitioned by the Soviet Navy and used as transport vessel with pennant No. VT542, but still under the name Meero.

1941:

Torpedoed on 2 Sep. at 0205 hours at Verkkomatala, in the southern end of Koivisto strait by the Finnish MTB Syöksy. Meero was on voyage from Kronstadt to Koivisto /Björkö to evacuate Soviet troops and their armament from Koivisto.

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