SS ''Socotra'' was a British general purpose

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built for P&O and launched in 1896. The vessel served in commercial cargo service to and from Far East and Australia. It was beached off

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, France in 1915 with cargo from Australia. and the ship broke in two. It is located a short distance from the wreck of the ''Orion''. The ship was the namesake for

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, which it discovered during a voyage in the Far East in 1900.

SS ''Socotra'' 1943

P&O would commission another vessel as Socotra, built in 1943 as passenger ship and scrapped in 1965.

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