Moresby: The Moresby was originally built as the 1,763 Grt. Jacob Christensen at Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough (Yard No. 189) for H. Konow & Others, Bergen. Flagged as Norwegian, she was launched 23 November 1881 and completed in January of 1882. In 1898 she was renamed Moresby and was operated by Moresby SS Co., Ltd. (Moller & Co.), Shanghai. At some point the ship was hired or requisitioned by the Royal Navy for war service during WWI and was defensively armed.                                                             No Photo Available On 28 November 1916 while in transit from Saigon to Dunkirk with a cargo of rice, she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann) approximately 120 miles Northwest-by-West from Alexandria at position 32.36N/28.38E. 33 lives lost. References: "British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats WW1 Miramar Single Ship Report for "1107022" http://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4247.html