.jpg) Deucalion
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Deucalion |
| Namesake | Deucalion |
| Owner | Ocean SS Co Ltd |
| Operator |  A Holt & Co |
| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Builder | Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Hebburn |
| Yard number | 568 |
| Launched | 29 July 1930 |
| Completed | December 1930 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scuttled, 12 August 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | refrigerated cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 7,740 GRT, 4,790 NRT, 8,880 DWT |
| Length | 460.0 ft (140.2 m) |
| Beam | 59.4 ft (18.1 m) |
| Depth | 29.3 ft (8.9 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 1,307 NHP, 8,600 bhp |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h) |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Armament | DEMS |
| Notes | sister ships: Agamemnon, Menestheus, Memnon, Ajax |
MV Deucalion was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship that was built in England in 1930 and sunk in the Second World War in 1942. She survived being damaged in the Liverpool Blitz in December 1940 and took part in two Malta convoys to relieve the Siege of Malta. She survived air attacks during the first of these, Operation Substance, in July 1941 but was lost on her second Malta Convoy, Operation Pedestal, in August 1942. This was the third of five Blue Funnel ships to be named after Deucalion, a mythological king of Thessaly in Ancient Greece.