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Ships
Athelbeach
3 ships of this name
1 SS ATHELBEACH ( 1925 – 1930 )
1918 Built as Tanker
WAR RAJPUT
8340 grt 400ft x
53ft
Shipping Controller, British Tanker Co manager
1920 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London
1922 CONIA same owner
1925 ATHELBEACH, British Molasses Co - ON
145613
1926 United Molasses Co, London
1930 REALF Odd Berg, Oslo
1931 Ronneberg & Geltung, Oslo
1936 ATHELMERE (2), United Molasses Co, London
1951 ALEXANDROS, Mageolia Naviera, Panama
1959 Myrrinella Naviera, Panama
1964 Scrapped at Split.
ATHELBEACH(1) as Athelmere (2)
Athelbeach(1) as Alexandros, laid up on the River Fal ( 1954
)
Courtesy
George Robinson
2 MV ATHELBEACH (1931-1941)
ON
: 162330
Owner:
United Molasses Co.
Date
of Build 1930
Completed
: 1931
Builder
Cammell, Laird & Co. Shipbuilders
Order
of build : 976
Vessel
Number : V0973
6,568
tons
426ft1ins
x 55ft9ins x 32ft2ins
11
knots; 489n.h.p. Oil engines.
Registered
: Liverpool
Fate
: 7th March 1941, about 200 miles S.W. of the Faroe Islands.
Captain
Malcolm Mclntyre and six men were killed. U-70 attacked Convoy OB-293 SE of
Iceland, but was lost after a second attack at 0725. The survivors of the
U-boat claimed that they had hit three ships in the first attack at 0445 hours
& another in the second. But, in fact, three ships were damaged -
ATHELBEACH, DELILIAN and MIJDRECHT. At 0640, U-99 torpedoed the already damaged
ATHELBEACH and the crew abandoned ship, at position 60 30N / 13 30W. At 0715,
the U-boat began to shell the tanker and sank her with a coup de grâce 15
minutes later. The master and six crew-members were lost. 37 crew-members were
picked up by corvette HMS CAMELLIA and landed at Greenock.
Men who died 7th
March 1941
BURDGE, Apprentice, LESLIE, Age
19.
Son of Francis Richard and May
Burdge,
of Compton Bishop, Somerset.
HARRISON, Chief Officer, DAVID,
Age 30.
Son of William and Emma Harrison;
husband of
Annie Harrison, of Hull.
HEGGEN, Boatswain, JAMES
HOUSTEN, Age 33.
Son of Thomas and Mary E.
Heggen, of Island-Magee,
Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
MOLLOY, Ordinary Seaman,
MARTIN, Age 18.
Son of William and Sarah
Molloy, of Greenock, Renfrewshire.
McINTYRE, Master, MALCOLM, Age
43.
Son of George and Elizabeth
McIntyre; husband of
Joyce Irene McIntyre, of
Falmouth, Cornwall.
ROBERTS, First Radio Officer,
GEORGE SELBY, Age 27.
Son of Ruth Wilty Roberts.
WHITE, Able Seaman, JAMES M.,
Age 24. (served as WHYTE).
Son of John and Sarah White, of
Greenock, Renfrewshire.
His brother Laurence also fell.
Athelbeach (2)
Athelbeach(2) at Falmouth Dry
Dock
Courtesy
George Robinson
Athelbeach
1931
3 MV ATHELBEACH ( 1950 - 1966 )
Reg
No 183789
Call
sign GJYY
Tanker
10350 dwt 7533 grt 4155 nt
Length
459 ft. Beam 61 ft.
1950 Built by Hawthorne Leslie, Hebburn
With a 4 cyl Doxford engine.
Arrived
in Santander Spain to be broken up on the 22nd of June 1967
Athelbeach(3)
Photograph by
Joe McMillan
Raymond
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