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Name | Scoresby |
Owner | Rowland & Marwood's SS Co, Ltd [1] |
Operator | Headlam & Son [1] |
Port of registry | Whitby [1] |
Builder | Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd, Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland [1] |
Yard number | 316 [4] |
Launched | 18 December 1922 |
Completed | January 1923 [1] |
Identification |
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Fate | sunk by torpedo, 17 October 1940 [5] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | cargo steamship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 360.1 ft (109.8 m) [1] registered length |
Beam | 50.0 feet (15.2 m) [1] |
Draught | 22 ft 6+3⁄4 in (6.88 m) [1] |
Depth | 22.9 feet (7.0 m) [1] |
Installed power | 340 NHP [1] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h)[ citation needed] |
Crew | 39 [5] |
SS Scoresby was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1923, sailed in a number of transatlantic convoys in 1940, and was sunk by a U-boat that October.
Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd of Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland built Scoresby. [1] She was launched on 18 December 1922 and completed in January 1923. [6]
Scoresby had eight corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 128 square feet (12 m2) that heated two 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 5,276 square feet (490 m2). [1] The boilers fed a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine that was rated at 436 NHP and drove a single screw. [1] The engine was built by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Co, Ltd, also of Sunderland. [1]
Scoresby owner was Rowland and Marwood's Steam Ship Co, Ltd, who registered her in Whitby. [1] She was managed by another Rowland and Marwood's company, Headlam & Sons. [1]
By January 1940 Beatus was sailing in convoys. [7] That month she sailed from Liverpool with Convoy OB 77 as far as the coast of Canada, whence she continued to San Domingo. [7] In March she returned to the UK with a convoy of sugar, sailing via Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy HX 28 that reached Liverpool on 2 April. [8]
In May 1940 Scoresby crossed the North Atlantic from Britain to Saint John, New Brunswick. She sailed with Convoy OA 150G from Southend, [9] which merged with Convoy OA 150G off Land's End to form Convoy OG 30 to Gibraltar. [10] In June she returned to the UK with a cargo of pit props, sailing via Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy HX 53 that reached Liverpool on 10 July. [11]
Scoresby spent the rest of July and August in home waters, sailing in short-haul convoys around Britain. Then on 31 August she sailed from Methil in Scotland with Convoy OA 207 to Canada. [12]
Scoresby sailed from Corner Brook, Newfoundland with a cargo of 1,685 fathoms (3,082 m) of pit props bound for the Clyde in Scotland. [5] She sailed via St. Francis Harbour, Nova Scotia and Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she joined Convoy SC 7. [5] Her Master was Lawrence Zebedee Weatherill, and she carried the Convoy Vice-Commodore. [5] SC 7 left Sydney on 5 October. At first the convoy had only one escort ship, the Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough. A wolf pack of U-boats found the convoy on 16 October and quickly overwhelmed it, sinking many ships over the next few days.
At 0553 hrs on 17 October SC 7 was about 160 nautical miles (300 km) northwest of Rockall when German submarine U-48, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Bleichrodt, fired three torpedoes at the convoy. [5] Two ships were hit and sunk: Scoresby and the French tanker Languedoc. [5] Captain Weatherill and his entire crew successfully abandoned ship, were rescued by the Flower-class corvette HMS Bluebell, and on 20 October were landed at Gourock in Scotland. [5]
![]() Scoresby
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History | |
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Name | Scoresby |
Owner | Rowland & Marwood's SS Co, Ltd [1] |
Operator | Headlam & Son [1] |
Port of registry | Whitby [1] |
Builder | Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd, Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland [1] |
Yard number | 316 [4] |
Launched | 18 December 1922 |
Completed | January 1923 [1] |
Identification |
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Fate | sunk by torpedo, 17 October 1940 [5] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | cargo steamship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 360.1 ft (109.8 m) [1] registered length |
Beam | 50.0 feet (15.2 m) [1] |
Draught | 22 ft 6+3⁄4 in (6.88 m) [1] |
Depth | 22.9 feet (7.0 m) [1] |
Installed power | 340 NHP [1] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h)[ citation needed] |
Crew | 39 [5] |
SS Scoresby was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1923, sailed in a number of transatlantic convoys in 1940, and was sunk by a U-boat that October.
Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd of Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland built Scoresby. [1] She was launched on 18 December 1922 and completed in January 1923. [6]
Scoresby had eight corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 128 square feet (12 m2) that heated two 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 5,276 square feet (490 m2). [1] The boilers fed a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine that was rated at 436 NHP and drove a single screw. [1] The engine was built by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Co, Ltd, also of Sunderland. [1]
Scoresby owner was Rowland and Marwood's Steam Ship Co, Ltd, who registered her in Whitby. [1] She was managed by another Rowland and Marwood's company, Headlam & Sons. [1]
By January 1940 Beatus was sailing in convoys. [7] That month she sailed from Liverpool with Convoy OB 77 as far as the coast of Canada, whence she continued to San Domingo. [7] In March she returned to the UK with a convoy of sugar, sailing via Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy HX 28 that reached Liverpool on 2 April. [8]
In May 1940 Scoresby crossed the North Atlantic from Britain to Saint John, New Brunswick. She sailed with Convoy OA 150G from Southend, [9] which merged with Convoy OA 150G off Land's End to form Convoy OG 30 to Gibraltar. [10] In June she returned to the UK with a cargo of pit props, sailing via Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy HX 53 that reached Liverpool on 10 July. [11]
Scoresby spent the rest of July and August in home waters, sailing in short-haul convoys around Britain. Then on 31 August she sailed from Methil in Scotland with Convoy OA 207 to Canada. [12]
Scoresby sailed from Corner Brook, Newfoundland with a cargo of 1,685 fathoms (3,082 m) of pit props bound for the Clyde in Scotland. [5] She sailed via St. Francis Harbour, Nova Scotia and Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she joined Convoy SC 7. [5] Her Master was Lawrence Zebedee Weatherill, and she carried the Convoy Vice-Commodore. [5] SC 7 left Sydney on 5 October. At first the convoy had only one escort ship, the Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough. A wolf pack of U-boats found the convoy on 16 October and quickly overwhelmed it, sinking many ships over the next few days.
At 0553 hrs on 17 October SC 7 was about 160 nautical miles (300 km) northwest of Rockall when German submarine U-48, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Bleichrodt, fired three torpedoes at the convoy. [5] Two ships were hit and sunk: Scoresby and the French tanker Languedoc. [5] Captain Weatherill and his entire crew successfully abandoned ship, were rescued by the Flower-class corvette HMS Bluebell, and on 20 October were landed at Gourock in Scotland. [5]