SS Magdapur explained
-- commercial vessels -->| Ship Name: | SS Magdapur | | Ship Owner: | Thos & Jno Brocklebank, Liverpool | | Ship Builder: | Lithgows, Port Glasgow | | Ship Yard Number: | 730 | | Ship Laid Down: | 1920 | | Ship Launched: | 17 November 1920 | | Ship Identification: |
| | Ship Fate: | Mined and sunk 10 September 1939 |
| Ship Type: | Cargo ship | | Ship Tonnage: |
| | Ship Length: | - 499.6feet until 1935;
- 473feet after 1935
| | Ship Beam: | 64feet | | Ship Draught: | 34.2feet[1] | | Ship Power: | Two steam turbines double reduction geared to single screw; ; two double ended & two single ended boilers, 24 corrugated furnaces engine | | Ship Propulsion: | single propeller | | Ship Capacity: | 80 crew |
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SS Magdapur was a
cargo ship mined and sunk off
Thorpeness,
Suffolk, by a
Nazi German submarine in the Second World War.
The SS Magdapur sailed for the Brocklebank Line.
On 10 September 1939, one week after the declaration of war, she was underway in ballast from Tyne to Southampton, her master was Arthur Dixon.[2] On that day she struck a mine laid by the .[3] She sank at 17:25. Six people died as a result of the attack, but 75 people were rescued from the sea by the Aldeburgh lifeboat Abdy Beauclerk.[4] Her crew included lascars.[5]
References
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Notes and References
- Web site: Martien. Slaats. SS Magdapur [+1939]]. Wrecksite. 20 July 2015.
- Web site: Cameron. Stuart. SS Magdapur. https://web.archive.org/web/20050430014644/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=18054. usurped. 30 April 2005. Clydebuilt database. 20 July 2015.
- Web site: U 13. Helgason. Guðmundur. German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net.
- Pears, Brian & Ripley, Roy. Website: "North East Diary". Entry for Sunday, 10 September 1939 D8. http://www.ne-diary.bpears.org.uk/Inc/ISeq_01.html
- "Unlucky 13". Loose minute. Unknown author. (Note that the Magdapur was not the first English ship to be sunk in the Second World War) http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEVkCc7YpV_U0AnH8nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bzdzZnZlBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDRkZYVUkyOF8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1435196957/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fthebertonandeastbridge.onesuffolk.net%2fassets%2fHistory-Photos%2fS.S.-Magdapur-sunk-off-Sizewell.doc/RK=0/RS=YjvL6pH.4F2N7XPPdYsa5mPGUus-
