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Swiftpool

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1929 Swiftpool Pool Shipping Co. Ltd.

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by U-372 (Heinz-Joachim Neumann) off the west coast of Ireland on August 5th, 1941. The ship was on a voyage from Pepel, Sierra Leone, to Middlesbrough with a cargo of ore. Master Harry Raymond Clark. 41 hands were lost.

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