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Acorn Archive
Hearts of Oak
Athel Line
Ships
Tankers Ltd
Ships
Scottish Strath
SCOTTISH
STRATH
7,417 grt
Built
1922 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Newcastle
For
Tankers Ltd, London.
440ft 8ins x 57ft 4ins x 34ft
424 nhp; triple-expansion engines.
1937
sold to A/S Jensen's Rederi II (Jorgen P. Jensen), Arendal, Norway
Renamed
MARIT II
1942 11th September : Torpedoed by U-404,
damaged, in Convoy ON-127
1946
MARIT II was carrying fuel oil from Curacao to New York when on
September 13th, she was caught in a hurricane, broke in two and sank in 35.09N 73.34W.
Eighteen survivors in a boat were picked up by the tanker PAN AMOCO and another
six by the tanker GULFHAWK, but the captain, his wife and
ten of the crew were lost.
Raymond
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