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TREWELLARD (1942)
Service dates: 1944-1962
Official number: 164680
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 16.06.1936
- Launched.
- 25.07.1936
- Ran trials.
- 07.1936
- Completed as Trewellard for The Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
- 05.11.1940
- Shelled and sunk by the German raider Admiral Scheer south-east of Greenland (52°26’N-32°34’W). She was part of the convoy escorted by HMS Jervis Bay which was also sunk that day. She was on a voyage from Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool with 7,800 tons of steel and 12 aeroplanes. 16 crew members were lost.