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Hearts of Oak
Athel Line
Ships
Athelrill
2 ships of this name
1 ATHELRILL
Official
number 139177
Built 1916
Barclay, Curie & Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Yard
number 536
For
Lane & McAndrew.
Named
LIMELEAF
(
Fleet sister ship, BOXLEAF became ATHELTARN )
Call
Sign : TCJB
450ft
6ins x 58ft 2ins x 32ft 7ins
7350
grt; 4428 nrt
830
nhp
Triple
expansion engines
1916
Dec : Sold to Dutch company; renamed CALIFORNIA
1917 19th April : On voyage from Port
Arthur (Texas) to Sheerness with a cargo of fuel oil, she was damaged by the
submarine U-40, ten miles east of the Owers Light vessel in position 00.00N 38.45W. She was later towed to Portsmouth.
1924
Sold to United Molasses; named ATHELRILL
1926
Sold and Named KOYO MARU
1931
Named OGURA MARU NR. 3; Ogura Sekiyu K.K
1944 23th February Torpedoed and sunk by Submarine USS COD,
off Halmahera in position 04.23N 129.05E.
100 miles North of Morotai ( The Moluccas ).
Athelrill (1) ex Limeleaf
2
ATHELRILL
O.N.143355
342 grt
119ft
5ins x 23ft 9ins
Built
1919 N.V. van der Kuy & van der
Rees, Rotterdam
as the cargo ship JOLLY BASIL, Dutch
Registration.
For
Walford Lines Ltd, London.
1925
Sold to Ramsey SS Co., Ltd, Ramsey, I.O.M; renamed BEN JEE.
1933
Sold to United Molasses Co, Georgetown, Demarara.
converted to coastal tanker and renamed
ATHELRILL.
1941
Company restyled Athel Line.
23 Feb 1942 SS Lennox was en route
from Paramaribo, Surinam to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, but she was torpedoed by
U-129, position 09.15N 58.30W, off Guyana.
Two men were killed. SS Athelrill
rescued the eighteen survivors.
1948
Sold to Pure Cane Molasses Co (British West Indies), Ltd, Georgetown.
1951
Sold to Charleston Saw Mills Ltd, Georgetown.
1959
Scrapped at Georgetown.
Athelrill
as BEN JEE
Photograph from the Gwyn
Pritchard Collection
Courtesy of Anthony Jones – http://www.rhiw.com
Raymond Forward