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Temperley Steam

Shipping Co Ltd

 

BEMBRIDGE

 

SS Bembridge

BEMBRIDGE

Built 1919  Caird & Company Greenock

As WAR ANCHUSA; Cargo Steamship

Yard Nr 355

5,242 grt

400ft x 52ft 3ins x 28ft 5ins

1919 Shipping Controller ( Manager J.Temperley & Co ) 

18^th September 1919 it was announced in The Times that

the name of the WAR ANCHUSA was to be changed to BEMBRIDGE.

1919 Renamed BEMBRIDGE; Temperley SS Co, London 

1924 Renamed QUEEN OLGA; Cadogan SS Co. Ltd., Glasgow 

1937 Renamed SEVERN LEIGH; Kelston SS Co, Bristol 

        ( Mark Withwill & Sons Ltd)

1940 23^rd August : Torpedoed and sunk by U.37

         Position 54.31N : 25.41W, off Iceland   

         on voyage Hull to St. John, New Brunswick, with the loss of 33 lives.

 

Bembridge, as Severn Leigh – sinking 1940

 

 

 

 

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