142. Mordei HaGetaot — Orietta
type: barkentine
Departed Bari, Italy 13 May 1947, arrived 24 May 1947
ex-Orietta, built 1920, 491 gross tons, wood auxiliary 3-mast barkentine
1457 passengers
A motor sailer, captured with no resistance by destroyers Brissenden and Haydon. 904 men, 518 women, 37 children.
Name means “Fighters of the Ghetto.”
Photograph source: http://palyam.org
Mordei HaGetaot