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Hearts of Oak

Athel Line Ships

Tankers Ltd Ships

Scottish Chief

SCOTTISH CHIEF
7,006 grt

Built 1928 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Newcastle

For Tankers Ltd, London.

441 x 57ft x  33ft 8ins; 766 nhp

11-5 knots; quadruple-expansionengines.

1941 management taken over by Athel Line.

19th November 1942  Torpedoed and sunk by U-177, position 30.39S 34.41E, on voyage Bandar Abbas to Table Bay with fuel oil, about 250 miles S.E. by S. of Durban, Indian Ocean. Capt. Thorogood and 35 others were lost, there were 12 survivors

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