Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1907 | Abonema | Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. | |
1908 | Abonema | British and African Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. | |
1920 | Sapele | British and African Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. | |
1929 | San Jorge | Weigel, Bohen & Cia Ltda SA Commercial | |
1931 | San Jorge | Delgado & Cia | |
1941 | Sirio | Cia Argentina de Nav Mihanovich Ltda | |
1934 | Santa Catharina | Cia Argentina de Nav Mihanovich Ltda | |
1941 | Kitty's Brook | Bowaters Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd. |
The steamship Kitty's Brook was torpedoed and sunk by U-588 off the coast of Nova Scotia, on 9th May, 1942. The ship was on a voyage from New York to the American Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, with a cargo of Government stores. Nine crew were lost. Master - Jack Rowland Moreby.
Lives lost: Anderson, EL, ordinary seaman; Anderson, William Henry, able seaman, 22; Carter, George W, able seaman, 29; Crocker, George Charles, 3rd engineer officer, 41; Osmond, William, fireman; White, Herbert William, fireman, 27; Whiteway, John, donkeyman; Woods, Ignatius, assistant steward; (All from Canada) West, William James, chief officer, 34, Plumstead, London.
Kitty’s Brook had been built as Elder, Dempster’s Abonema, one of the sisters. In 1920 a change of heart, or perhaps change of trade, saw her becoming Sapele for the same owners. When sold in 1929, the first of three Argentinean owners bought her, renaming her San George and converting her Richardsons, Westgarth triple-expansion engines to oil burning. In 1935 she became Santa Catherina, as which Bowater’s Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. probably paid a high price for a ship which gave them barely a year’s work.
Kitty’s Brook was acquired in 1941, but was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 588 off the east coast in position 42.56N by 63.59W, on 10th May 1942, whilst carrying United States Government stores from New York to Argentia, Newfoundland. Nine lives were lost, but vengeance was swift, as the U-588 was herself sunk by a Canadian corvette that July.
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