Ship Number 26: Astir
	Departed Varna 6-Mar-1939, arrived 2-Apr-1939 Gross tonnage/Year built: 1350/1896 [699] passengers [did not reach Palestine] Organized by Betar (Stavsky) Sailed with 200 handpicked members of Betar from Poland and a group of refugees from Danzig. No reception party was found on the beach, and she was discovered by the British and brought into Haifa. After being held for 3 days she was forced to leave. From Haifa she went to Laureon then Chia, in the Aegean. On 13 Jun the passengers embarked on the Marsis (No.39), at Piraeus, which the passengers had commandeered. Photo courtesy of Steamship Historical Society of America

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