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Hearts of Oak
Athel Line
Ships
Athellaird
2 ships of this name
1 ATHELLAIRD
GSN 20007793
ON
161145
Built 1929 Camell Laird Shipbuilders Birkenhead
Order
962
Vessel
Number V0959
For
United Molasses Corporation Uk
8999
grt
1940 Torpedoed
2.7.40; 47 24N 16 49W; U-29
1940 2nd July At 2352, the ATHELLAIRD, a straggler from
Convoy OB-176, was hit by one torpedo from U-29 about 350 miles NW of Cape
Finisterre. At 0210 on 3 July, three coup de grâce shots were fired of which
two missed and the third sank the tanker. The master and 41 crewmembers were
picked up by sloop HMS SANDWICH and landed at Greenock. Laurie Youens, Petty
Officer, aged 16, spent 10 days adrift in the ship’s lifeboat. Picked up by an
Irish coaster and landed at Tralee, County Kerry. He stayed for a few days as a
guest of the Brandon Hotel in Tralee before he was returned to England.
Also
at
http://www.rhiw.com/y_mor/hugh_roberts/athellaird/athellaird.htm
http://www.rhiw.com/y_mor/hugh_roberts/athellaird/athellaird_loss.htm
Bibliothek fur
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart
Collection Raul Maya (Montevideo)
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/marine/index.htm
2 ATHELLAIRD
GSN 20007794
ON
182481
Built 1948 Camell Laird Shipbuilders, Birkenhead
Order
1191
Vessel
Nr V1188
For Athel Line Ltd Uk
11,150 grt
522ft
7ins x 67ft 3ins
Twin
screw.
1971
scrapped at Faslane.
Athellaird(2)
Athellaird
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