RMS Ebro
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Serpa Pinto during the Second World War
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| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name: | RMS Ebro |
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| Port of registry: |  |
| Route: | West Indies and New York City-Chile |
| Builder: | Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast |
| Launched: | September 1914 |
| Maiden voyage: | April 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold to Jugoslavenska Lloyd |
| Yugoslavia | |
| Name: | Princess Olga |
| Owner: | Jugoslavenska Lloyd |
| Operator: | Jugoslavenska Lloyd |
| Port of registry: |  |
| Route: | Dubrovnik-Haifa |
| Out of service: | 1940 |
| Fate: | Sold to Companhia Colonial de Navegação |
| Portugal | |
| Name: | Serpa Pinto |
| Owner: | Companhia Colonial de Navegação |
| Operator: | Companhia Colonial de Navegação |
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Lisbon, G-407 
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| Route: | Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Philadelphia, New York City and Havana |
| Maiden voyage: | May 1940 to Beira |
| Out of service: | 7 August 1954 |
| Identification: | CSBA |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Antwerp |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 8,267 tons |
| Length: | 142.47 m (467.4 ft) |
| Beam: | 17.0 m (55.8 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.85 m (22.5 ft) |
| Installed power: | 6,000 hp |
| Propulsion: | 2 beams |
| Crew: | 160 |
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RMS Ebro was an ocean liner built in 1914 for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She was later owned and operated by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Jugoslavenska Lloyd and finally by Companhia Colonial de Navegação. In her last incarnation, under the name Serpa Pinto, she made more crossings of the Atlantic during the Second World War than any other civilian vessel, leading to her being termed the Friendship vessel or Destiny ship. In 1964 the Ebro was scrapped.
The Ebro was ordered by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company from the Belfast shipbuilders Workman, Clark and Company. She was launched in September 1914, and was 468 ft long with a beam of 55.8 ft.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company initially planned for Ebro to operate on the West Indies service in the Caribbean, but due to the start of the First World War, she made only a single voyage on this service, in April 1915. She was then requisitioned, together with her sister ship RMS Essequibo and four other liners of the company, by the Royal Navy to serve as auxiliary cruisers armed with eight 6-inch guns, depth charges and mines. The ships were integrated in the 10th Auxiliary cruiser squadron, where they served as convoy escorts throughout the war.
After the war Ebro was returned to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The company decided to sell her to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which refitted her and then placed her on the New York – Chile service, sailing through the Panama Canal. She carried out this service until the 1929 Wall Street crash forced the company into bankruptcy in 1930. Ebro was then moored at Avonmouth until 1935.
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