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Athel Line
Ships
Athelprincess
2 ships of this name
1 ATHELPRINCESS
GSN
20007801
ON
161137
Built
1929 Wm. Hamilton & Co, Port
Glasgow.
Yard
Nr 410
For Athel Line, London
8,882
grt
475ft
x 63.3ft x 35ft
Engine
by J G Kincaid & Co Ltd Greenock
Oil
engine; 4S CSA 12cyl 709nhp
Twin
screw, 10½ knots.
1943 - At 0741hrs 23rd February; SS ATHELPRINCESS, a straggler from
Convoy UC-1, on voyage Port Everglades via Halifax to Liverpool with molasses,
was hit by two torpedoes from U-522 and sank west of Madeira. One crew member
was lost. The master, 42 crewmembers and seven gunners were picked up by sloop
HMS WESTON, transferred to destroyer USS HILARY P JONES & landed at San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
The man who
died 23rd February 1943
NICHOLLS, Second Engineer Officer, WILLIAM CHARLES, Age
32.
Son of Edward John King Nicholls and Eliza Dunstan
Nicholls.
Athelprincess(1)
Bibliothek fur
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart
Collection Raul Maya (Montevideo)
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/marine/index.htm
Athelprincess(1)
Photograph Courtesy Anthony Jones
www.rhiw.com
2 ATHELPRINCESS
ON 301334
Bulk
carrier
Built
1960 by Caledon SB & Eng. Co, Dundee.
For Athel Line Limited
10,295
grt
496ft
x 69ft 5ins
Twin
screw
1966
Transferred to Sugar Line Ltd and renamed SUGAR EXPORTER.
1977
Sold Astro Pacifico Armadora, Greece renamed ZEUS.
1985
scrapped China.
Athelprincess (2)
Photograph
kindly provided by
Thomas Weis
Bibliothek fur
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart
Collection Raul Maya (Montevideo)
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/marine/index.htm
Athelprincess
These two, showing her bunkering in Lyttelton
after discharging phosphates. August 1962.
Athelprincess
Above two photographs by David Edge
Raymond
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