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Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Belgravian | Ellerman Lines Ltd. |
In convoy SL-81 on a voyage from Port Harcourt for Freetown & Hull with a cargo of tin, ore, groundnuts & kernels & a total complement of 50 Belgravian was torpedoed by German submarine U-372 (Heinz-Joachim Neumann) & sank west of Ireland on 5 August 1941. 47 survivors, including the master, were picked up by HMS Bluebell& landed at Gourock. Master Richard Sanderson Kearon. Two hands were lost.
Belgravian
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Donated by Mr. Stuart WilsonThe steamship Belgravian.
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