page_title: SS Sarpedon (1923)
hierarchical_section_title: SS Sarpedon (1923)
caption_attribution_description: English: Oil on canvas painting by JS Mann of the 11,321 GRT Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon in Gladstone Dock, Liverpool. The painting is in the Museum of Liverpool. The ship was built in 1923, scrapped in 1953 and was the fourth of six Blue Funnel ships to bear the Sarpedon name.
context_page_description: The fourth SS Sarpedon was an 11,321-ton cargo liner of the Blue Funnel Line launched in 1923.
  Sarpedon was the lead ship of a class of four, comprising SS Sarpedon, SS Patroclus (1923), SS Hector, and SS Antenor. They were built with accommodation for 155 first-class passengers by request of the British government to provide additional passenger berths on cargo vessels on services to the Far East. The passenger accommodation in the superstructure did not impact the cargo-carrying ability of the ships, since the shipping line did not expect the passenger-carrying to turn a profit.
  Unlike its three sisters, Sarpedon was not commissioned as an Armed Merchant Cruiser during World War II and was one of two that survived the conflict.
  She arrived at Newport, Monmouthshire on June 5, 1953 to be broken up by John Cashmore & Co.
  The bell of the Sarpedon rests in the yard of St Nicholas church facing the Pier Head in Liverpool.
context_section_description: The fourth SS Sarpedon was an 11,321-ton cargo liner of the Blue Funnel Line launched in 1923.
  Sarpedon was the lead ship of a class of four, comprising SS Sarpedon, SS Patroclus (1923), SS Hector (1924), and SS Antenor (1924).  They were built with accommodation for 155 first-class passengers by request of the British government to provide additional passenger berths on cargo vessels on services to the Far East.  The passenger accommodation in the superstructure did not impact the cargo-carrying ability of the ships, since the shipping line did not expect the passenger-carrying to turn a profit.
  Unlike its three sisters, Sarpedon was not commissioned as an Armed Merchant Cruiser during World War II and was one of two (with Antenor) that survived the conflict.
  She arrived at Newport, Monmouthshire on June 5, 1953 to be broken up by John Cashmore & Co.
  The bell of the Sarpedon rests in the yard of St Nicholas church facing the Pier Head in Liverpool.
caption: Oil on canvas painting of SS Sarpedon in Gladstone Dock, Liverpool by JS Mann.
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