This small cargo steamer was completed by N.V.Machinenfabriek en Scheepsswerf van P.Smit, Jr., Roterdam, on 28 April 1921 for Finska Angfartygo Aktiebolaget, Helsinki.
Gt; 1,821, nt; 1,025, dwt; 2,465. Diamensions; 75,45m x 11,25m, draft; 6,20m; 3-cyl. steam engine, 1,050 ihp, speed; 9,5 knots.
On 12 Jan 1945 Regulus was surrendered to the USSR as war reparations, renamed as Parnu, and operated by the Baltic Shipping Co., Leningrad.
In 1960 Lloyd’s Register listed her as Pjarnu, and in 1962 she was deleted from the Soviet register.
Finland, 1942, 100ml, S.G.?, Scott; 240.
Source: Watercraft Philately.