SS Peleus

	Peleus at anchor
History
Name	1928: Egglestone; 1928: Peleus;
Namesake	1928: Egglestone Abbey; 1928: Peleus;
Owner	1928: William Gray & Co; 1928: EE Hadjilias; 1933: Nereus SN Co Ltd;
Operator	1928: EE Hadjilias
Port of registry	1928: West Hartlepool; 1928: Syros;
Builder	William Gray & Co, West Hartlepool
Yard number	999
Launched	6 February 1928
Completed	March 1928
Identification	1928: UK official number 139253; 1928: code letters LBKN; ; until 1933: code letters JGWT; ; by 1934: call sign SZGL; ;
Fate	sunk by torpedo, 13 March 1944
General characteristics
Type	cargo steamship
Tonnage	4,695 GRT, 2,840 NRT
Length	400.1 ft (122.0 m) registered
Beam	54.2 ft (16.5 m)
Draught	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Depth	25.1 ft (7.7 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	1 × triple-expansion engine, 476 NHP
Propulsion	1 × screw
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h)
Crew	by 1944: 35 + 4 DEMS gunners
Sensors &; processing systems	by 1940: wireless direction finding
Armament	by 1944: defensively equipped merchant ship

SS Peleus was a cargo steamship. She was built in 1928 in England as Egglestone. Later that year, a Greek shipowner bought her and renamed her Peleus. She served on the Allied side during the Second World War. In 1944, a U-boat sank her, and then attacked her survivors with grenades and machine gun fire, killing all but four of them. This is the only proven case of a U-boat in the Second World War committing a war crime of this type.