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Athel Line Ships

Tankers Ltd Ships

Scottish Maiden

SCOTTISH MAIDEN
6,993 grt

Built 1921 by Vickers Ltd, Barrow

For Tankers Ltd, London.

425ft 3ins x 57ft x 33ft 2ins

446 nhp.; 10 knots; oil engines

The tanker SCOTTISH MAIDEN, Capt. J. W. Gibson, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine by U.99 in 54.36N 14.23W, on voyage HX83 Curacao to
Avonmouth, with fuel oil and diesel, in the North Atlantic on November 5th, 1940. Sixteen men were killed. Capt. Gibson was among the 28 survivors.

Raymond Forward