Kioto

Names and owners

Year	Name	Owner
1917	Kioto	Ellerman Lines Ltd.

Fate

The steamship Kioto was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-514 (Hans-Jurgen Auffermann), off Venezuela, on September 15th, 1942. The ship was on a voyage from Diego Suarez to Baltimore with a cargo of chrome ore. Master Arthur Lloyd Beckett. Twenty-one crew lost their lives.