Early Career
The Beatus was built in 1925 by the Ropner Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, of Stockton-on-Tees. She served with W.H. Seager & Co Ltd, Cardiff and was homeported in that city. On the outbreak of war she took part in a number of convoys, travelling between UK ports and making several longer voyages to bring vital supplies to Britain. In February 1940 she sailed from Freetown to Liverpool, and made two transatlantic crossings in March and August 1940. In both cases she sailed from Halifax to Liverpool. She returned to the North American coast later in the year, and after collecting a cargo at Three Rivers, she sailed to join convoy SC-7, which was assembling at Sydney, Nova Scotia.
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