SS Navemar

SS Navemar was a cargo steamship completed in October 1921 by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle upon Tyne as Frogner for the Norwegian owners Fearnley and Eger. Spanish owners bought her in 1927 and renamed her Cabo Mayor and then Navemar. She was about 124 metres long and drove a single screw with a triple expansion steam engine. She is chiefly remembered for a voyage in 1941 when she carried about 1,120 European Jewish refugees from Seville to New York in overcrowded holds that had lately carried coal. Typhus broke out and six passengers died on the five week crossing. An Italian submarine sank her in the Strait of Gibraltar in January 1942.