3,474 grt
Operator: NAVROM - Romanian Maritime and Fluvial Navigation.
Built: 1918 by J Blumer & Co Ltd, North Dock, Sunderland, uk . Yard no. 246.
Machinery: triple-expansion steam reciprocating by J Dickinson; Output 2,200 ihp. Speed: 10 knots.
Built as World War I standard-design WAR HIGHWAY for The Shipping Controller, London. Managers: F + W Ritson, Sunderland.
1918-sold to The Hartlepool Seatonia SS Co Ltd, West Hartlepool, renamed SEATONIA
1919-sold to J E Murrell SS Co Ltd, West Hartlepool, renamed BRACONDALE
1934-sold to Sovtorgflot, USSR, renamed BERESINA
1950-transferred to Sovromtransport, Romania
1959-transferred to NAVROM, renamed BEREZINA
1962-renamed EFORIE
1975-last reported voyage; laid up
2005-reported still intact in abandoned, wrecked condition in River Danube near Braila, Romania
Photo: Tilbury, 21/1/1968