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Hearts of Oak
PAPALEMOS
Built as LEUCADIA
Ships sunk by ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE
The Merchant Navy Prisoners taken by
ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE
LEUCADIA
3748
grt; 6394 dwt
Built
in 1910 by the Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co., Willington Quay, Newcastle.
For
International Line SS Co. Ltd. (C. Marwood), Whitby, Yorkshire.
later Rowlands and Marwoods SS Co. Ltd.
348ft
5ins x 50ft 5ins x 23ft 5ins.
Triple
expansion steam; 307 nhp; built J. Dickinson and Co., Sunderland.
1916 Sold to Sutherland SS Co. (B.J. Sutherland
and Co.), Sandhill, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Renamed STROMA.
1929 Sold to George A Georgilis, Chios, Greece;
Renamed PAPALEMOS.
SS Leucadia ( SS Stroma ) as Papalemos
Photograph
from the Stuttgart Collection
28th
May 1941 En route with 5460 tons of grain, Rosario / Montevideo to Freetown and
UK, torpedoed by U-107 and followed by AA gunfire.
Complement:
29 (2 dead and 27 survivors). The U-boat crew took care of three wounded
survivors and provided them cigarettes, chocolate and provisions.
Sunk
in position 08.06N : 16.18W
Raymond
Forward