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Athel Line
Ships
Athelfoam
3 ships of this name
1 ATHELFOAM
Built
as WAR GHURKA
WW1-Standard
Z type Tanker: engines and all superstructure amidships.
5,571
grt 3,397 nt
400ft
x 52ft 4ins.
1918
December Completed by Irvines S.B.
& D.D. Co., West Hartlepool
For
Shipping Controller, managed by Hunting & Son
1919
Purchased by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London
1921
CAPRELLA, same owner
1924
Sold to British Molasses Co, London
1925
renamed ATHELFOAM
1926
United Molasses Co; Athel Line formed.
1931
Owners G.O.Aarvold, Oslo renamed HIRD,
on charter to Athel Line.
1935
renamed ATHELSTANE, United Molasses Co
1939
Athel Line Ltd, London
1941
Tankers Ltd, London
1942 9th April Bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft at
07.30N 81.56E, whilst serving as Royal
Fleet Auxiliary on passage from Trincomalee for Colombo.
Athelfoam(1)
2 ATHELFOAM
ON
162327
Built
1931 Cammell Laird & Co.
Order
of build 975
Vessel
number V0972
For
United Molasses Co. – Athel Line
6,554
Gross Registered Tons; 10,148 Deadweight Tons
426ft
lins x 55ft 9ins x 32ft 2ins
476
nhp; Oil engines. Max. Speed 11 knots
15th
March 1941 shelled by SCHARNHORST position 42N
43 25W
The
tanker Athelfoam, was on a voyage from Liverpool to Pastelillo, in ballast. Operation
Berlin : She was intercepted by the German
raider Scharnhorst and sunk 500 miles SE of Cape Race. The surviving crew of 45
were taken prisoner and taken to Milag Nord as Prisoners Of
War.
Athelfoam(2)
Men of the MV
Athelfoam who died
HUGHES,
Boatswain, DAVID, 15th March 1941. Age 52.
Son of William
and Francis Hughes
Husband of Annie
Hughes, of Rhydyclafdy, Caernarvonshire.
BREEN, Able
Seaman, PATRICK. 13th May 1943. Age 58.
Son of Moses
and Annie Breen, of Wexford, Irish Republic.
BYRNE, Able
Seaman, JAMES, 22nd October 1944. Age 39.
Son of Charles
and Ann Byrne (nee Penstion), of Arklow.
Buried Arklow
Cemetery.
3 ATHELFOAM
Built
1951 Smiths Dock Co, Middlesbrough
7,486
grt
440ft
7ins x 61ft 3ins
1963
scrapped Japan.
Athelfoam(3)
Photograph by
Joe McMillan
Raymond
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