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Empire Tennyson

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1942 Empire Tennyson British Government

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by U-175 (Heinrich Bruns), off Venezuela, on October 1st, 1942. The ship was on a voyage from Demerara to Trinidad with a cargo of bauxite.
Four of the crew of forty were lost, including two from West Hartlepool - the Master, Alfred Ernest Wright, and Thomas Cooper, Chief Engineer.

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