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Carperby

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1928 Carperby R. Ropner & Company

Fate

On a voyage from the Tyne for St Vincent & Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal & coke Carperby was torpedoed by German submarine U-588 (Victor Vogel) & sank about 450 miles south of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic on 1 March 1942. All 40 lives  were lost. Master Frederick Gardiner.

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