SS Socotra was a British general purpose cargo ship built for P&O and launched in 1896.
The vessel served in commercial cargo service to and from Far East and Australia.
The ship was the namesake for Socotra Rock, which it discovered during a voyage in the Far East in 1900.
[3] P&O would commission another vessel as Socotra, built in 1943 as passenger ship and scrapped in 1965.
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