A German air attack sank her in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1940, causing the deaths of 33 of her crew.

[2][3] The Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co built two sister ships for Fisher, Renwick, to the same measurements as Hussar.

In April 1914 Carbineer sank as the result of a collision with a ship called Isis in the English Channel off Selsey Bill.

[9] In 1938 JE Vardavas and Company bought Kilbane, renamed her Frossoula,[a] and registered her under the Panamanian flag of convenience.

[10] In 1940 the Phoenix Steam Ship Company acquired Frossoula, and placed her under the management of Michael M Xylas.

They included 194 women; 77 children;[13] and more than 100 former members of the Czechoslovak Army,[14] which had been disbanded after Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia.

[14] On 3 August another Panamanian-registered ship, Tiger Hill, left Constanța in Romania, carrying between 750 and 900 Jewish refugees.

On 29 August she arrived off Beirut and rendezvoused at sea with Frossoula, whose refugees were transferred to Tiger Hill.

On 31 August 1939 the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that French authorities had interned Czechoslovak 150 officers and 175 privates at Beirut.

The JTA reported that the UK authorities were considering admitting them to Palestine, at first to be detained at the Sarafand internment camp, but then to be released into the armed forces.

[19] In July 1940 Frossoula left Barcelona in Spain for Glasgow in Scotland, carrying a cargo of potash.

Panama was neutral at the time, but on 15 July German aircraft sank the ship in the North Atlantic by bombing her about 258 nautical miles (478 km) northwest of Cape Finisterre.

Aboard the Chief Officer's boat, some of the occupants were washed overboard, and others died of exposure.