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Athel Line
Ships
Athelduke
3 ships of this name
1 ATHELDUKE
GSN 20007783
ON 161081
Built 1929 R. Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow
8966 grt
475ft
x 63ft 4ins
Twin screw; Speed 10 ½ knots
1941 17th January Mined 51
21N 03 20 W - Off Barry, S.Wales;
Salvaged.
1945 16th
April In convoy FS1784 en route from
Port Everglades to Hull ( Saltend with molasses ); East of the Longstone,
Farnes she was torpedoed by U-1274
position 55.38N, 01.30W. She sunk at 55.36N 01.40W. One crewmember was lost. The British merchantman KING
NEPTUNE picked up the master, 41 crew members and four gunners.
The man who died 16th April 1945
McKENZIE, Fourth Engineer Officer, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Age 23.
Athelduke (1)
By kind permission of
Bibliothek fur
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart
Collection Raul Maya (Montevideo)
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/marine/index.htm
2 ATHELDUKE
ON 182472
Built: 1949 Sir
J. Laing & Sons, Sunderland.
Owner: Athel
Line Limited
9,089
grt
474ft
6ins x 63ft 7ins
Single
screw
1952 Diversion of HMS Alacrity: assistance given to Athelduke
on account of mutinous conduct by members of crew. (ADM 1/23734)
1958 Tankers Ltd
1967 Arrived at Hirao, Japan 6th June for demolition.
1967 scrapped Japan.
Athelduke (2)
Puerto Padre, Cuba - 16th May
1956
Photograph by
John Tomlinson
Athelduke in Wellington Harbour
3 ATHELDUKE
10,800
grt
Built
1968 Uddevallavarvet A/B, Uddevalla,
Sweden.
Yard Nr 221
for Athel Line Ltd.
Sister
ship to ATHELDUCHESS(3) and ATHELKNIGHT (3)
1970 ANCO DUKE Athel Line Ltd.
1979 ANCO DUKE Wirontono Shipping Pte. Ltd. -
Singapore
1980 LAKE ANETTE R/A Mimer & A/S
Norfart - Norway
1980 LAKE ANETTE P/R Lake
Anette -Norway
1983 SATU MAR Thomar Nav. Pte.Ltd.-Singapore
1986 TOVE COB Bulk Products Shipping Trading Pte.
Ltd. - Singapore
1993 Arrived at Chittagong, Bangladesh, 8 Feb. for
demolition
Athelduke (3) as ANCO DUKE
Photograph by
Joe McMillan
Raymond
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