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Athelempress
1 ship of this name
ATHELEMPRESS
GSN 20007785
ON
162317
Built
1930 W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow
8941 grt
Owner
: Athel Line
Registered
: Liverpool
8,941
tons
475ft
x 63ft 3ins x 35ft
709
nhp; Oil engines.
Twin
screw; 11 knots
5th November 1940
ATHELEMPRESS escaped from the ADMIRAL SCHEER, due to the sacrifice of JERVIS
BAY.
1942 29th April At 0152, the ATHELEMPRESS, dispersed from
Convoy OS-25 (Southampton to Trinidad, in ballast) was torpedoed and sunk by
gunfire by U-162 180 miles east of Barbados, position 13.21N 56.15W. Two crew members and one gunner were
lost. The master and 18 crew members landed at Gros Inlet Bay, St Lucia. The
chief officer and 27 crew members were picked up by the Norwegian tanker
ATLANTIC and landed at Trinidad.
The men who
died 29th April 1942
DOMINEY,
Fireman, CHARLES FRANK, Age 58.
Son of Henry
and Barbara Dominey.
MIDDLETON,
Second Radio Officer, SYDNEY HENRY CHARLES, Age 19.
Son of Sydney
James and Agusta Gertrude Ellen Middleton,
of North
Petherton, Somerset.
SULLIVAN, Able
Seaman, JAMES RUSSELL, C/JX 191019.
H.M.S.
President III. Royal Navy.
Lost in S.S.
Athelempress. 29th April 1942. Age 21.
Son of Daniel
Russell Sullivan and Anne Sullivan;
husband of
Emily Florence Sullivan, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Athelempress
By kind permission of
Bibliothek fur
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart
Collection Raul Maya (Montevideo)
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/marine/index.htm
Raymond
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