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Egglestone

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1928 Egglestone W. Gray & Co. Ltd.
1928 Peleus E.E. Hadjilias

Fate

On a voyage from Algiers for Freetown & Buenos Aires in ballast with a crew of 35 Peleus was rammed & machine gunned by German submarine U-852 (Heinz-Wilhelm Eck) & sank 3 days out from Freetown on 13 March 1944. Master Minas Mavris. 32 hands were lost.

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