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Lackenby

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1928 Lackenby R. Ropner & Company

Fate

On a voyage from Tampa for New York, Loch Ewe & London with a cargo of phosphate Lackenby was torpedoed by German submarine U-624 (Graf Ulrich von Soden, Fraunhofen) & sank south of Cape Farewell on 23 January 1943. Master William Arthur Allon. All 45 lives were lost.

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