Built as a passenger- cargo vessel under yard No 490 by Friedrich Krupp AG, Kiel Germany for the Spanish owner Compania Transmediterranean, Barcelona.
15 March 1927 launched as the INFANTA BEATRIZ.
Tonnage 6.279 gross, 5.200 dwt, dim. 410.0 x 52 x 25.4ft. length bpp. 393.6ft., loaded draught 21.6ft.
Two 6-cyl.S.A. Krupp diesel engines, 4.340 shp., twin screws, speed 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 131 first class, 38 second and 60 third class, crew around 99.
April 1928 delivered.
The company did have a network of liner services along the Spanish coast and to the Balearic and Canary Islands and North Africa.
The INFANTA BEATRIZ was built for the trade between the Canary Islands and the Spanish mainland, and her holds were fitted out to carry on the return voyage from the Canary Islands bananas.
1931 Many ships names of the company were changed to a city, and she was renamed in CIUDAD DE SEVILLA.
On the end of the Civil War in Spain was she attacked by Nationalists planes in January 1931 when she was berthed in Barcelona, and she sank.
She was salvaged and repaired and one funnel was removed.
Thereafter used in the new opened liner service between Spain and South America, made four round voyages in this service.
1940 In the service from Barcelona to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentine.
1941 She opened the new service of the company from Barcelona via Lisbon to New York; her first sailing in this service was on 08 May 1941. She made only two voyages in this service, on her last voyage she made on her return voyage also a call at Las Palmas, Canary Island.
During 1944 she made one again an Atlantic voyage from Barcelona to Trinidad, Philadelphia then return via Lisbon and Genoa back to Barcelona.
Then again in the service between Barcelona and the Canary Islands.
Between 1960 and 1961 for a long time out of service for modernization and refit.
Again in the service between Barcelona and the Canary Islands.
Second quarter scrapped at Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain.
Maldives Islands 1997 2r sg2682, scott2223
Source: Log Book, North Atlantic Seaway and South Atlantic Seaway both by Bonsor.