Ships , anyone?

[christerd]

The next ship in my ever growing collection of torpedoed ships is

Cinncinati of Hamburg-America Line, built in Danzig 1908 , she could carry 2749 passengers which is quite good for a 16000 ton ship

The maiden voyage went from Hamburg via Southampton and New York in May 1909.

In April 1917 she was seized by USA in Boston and renamed USS Covington ( se my earlier post with her sinking)

On 1st July 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-86 near the French Coast.

Christer

Edited January 8, 2009 by christerd

[Ralph]

Llangibby Castle - Torpedoed en route to SIngapore, managed to get back to Gibraltar - she was steered with engines only due to he rudder being blown off.

[nesredep]

Hello!

Nice Photos.

All the best

Nesredep

[GeorgeCL]

Heres a nice Large pewter charger with the SMS Aegir.

And a link the the ships history.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...lz%3D1I7GGIK_en

George

Edited January 8, 2009 by GeorgeCL

[christerd]

:jumping:

Wow Great Items ! This collecting area just grows....

Here is two of my latest findings .

SS City of Birmingham from the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah or Savannah Line

This ship was built in 1923 and had the same name as an ealier ship built in 1888.

In June 30th 1942 she was torpedoed by the German sub U 202 and sunk, two passengers and seven crew members followed her down.

Christer

[christerd]

And here is another unlucky ship

The El Biar from the Compagnie de Navigation Mixte a French shipping line wich trafficed the line Marseilles - Mediterranean and North African ports.

El Biar was a small ship 4564 tons and built in 1927. She was torpedoed and sunk by aircraft 1944 (anyone who has more info about this?)

I suppose it could have been German HE 111s or Italian aircrafts or even US /English if she was attacked before during the Wichy time ?

Christer

[christerd]

Here is my latest ship in the collection of Torpedoed ship

S/S C.F Tietgen of the Scandinavian-America line , she was launched as Rotterdam 1897 for the Holland-America Line but bought by S-A line in 1906

and started on the route Norway - New York

A funny thing about her that she was in the first Titanic movie in 1913 !! Ha! eat dust - Cameron!

But she survived Titanic with 6 years and on the 18th of June 1918 she met her destiny in U-151 wich torpedoed her NE of Bermuda.

6 life boats with crew survived after ten days at sea, the 7th lifeboat with 22 man were lost at sea.

Christer

[christerd]

Torpedo Los !l

Long time since I posted some unlucky ships here

But now I have a lot of new photos and stories to tell you , here we go.....

SS Sockaboemi 7051 t was built in Netherlands 1923 , she was torpedoed by U 356 in December 1941 but this submarine was sunk by Destroyer escort and all ombord killed, but then U 441 put a torpedo in the doomed ship and Sockaboemi sunk. Only one man ombord died in the attack while 69 survived. U 441 itself was sunk in English Chanell 8 June 1944 with all hands....

[christerd]

Next ship is SS Ionia 3102 t build in 1922 for Hamburg America Line , later to Deutsche Levant Line in 1923

She was attacked and sunk by a British submarine outside Narvik , Norway in April 1940

[christerd]

And here a really unlucky ship ...

Not only was SS Toran torpedoed in 1940 , she was hit by the British submarine HMS Sealion by mistake ...

SS Toran was built for Christiansen Steamship Co 1918 and was on the way to England when she was torpedoed and two omborde died.

[christerd]

A ships story is often about the men and woman ombord and many sad and heroic stories can be told about these people.

Here is a story about such a ship , HMS Vortigern launched 1917 and in service in WW 1, 1939 again in service in a new war and used as convoy escort between England and Gibraltar.

March 1942 she was defending such a convoy against German E-boats when she was torpedoed by S-104 and sunk with the lost of 110 lifes, only 14 could be saved from the water. She now rests in only 17 m deep water off Cromer.

[christerd]

28th September 1928 was the date when SS Duchess of York was launched in Glasgow , 20021 t and made for Canadian Pacific Steamship Co on the route Liverpool-New Brunswick.

In 1940 she was converted to transport troops and sailed with tropps to Europe and POW s to Canada. July 11th 1943 she was atatcked by

Luftwaffe , Focke Wulf 200 Condor bomber from KG 40 , none of the 27 ombord was injured but the day after she was torpedoed by Royal navy and sunk. A sad ending for a proud ship.

[christerd]

SS Barrdale 5072 t built at Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd in 1925. On way from New York to Abadan she was spotted by U 156 under command of Werner Hartenstein. 17th May 1942 she was sunk by a single torpedo and after the sinking U 156 surfaced and took ombord one survivor as prisoner and 10 tires as war loot ? One ombord Barrdale was killed in the attack.

Edited January 22, 2012 by christerd

[christerd]

SS Biela was built as War Mastif by Short Bros , Pallion Sunderland 1918, later renamed Biela.

She sailed in the convoy ON-62 from Liverpool to Buenos Aires i January 1942 , i md Atlantic she left the convoy and headed South.

close to midnight 14th February she was topedoed by U 98 and sunk, all 48 ombord Biela perished in the cold water.

[christerd]

S/S N.J Fjord 1425t built at Lolnitz Co 1896 . This small ship had the strange destiny to be the reason to a large sea battle in teh first world war....

She was torpedoed by UC-31 under the command of Otto von Schrader 5th April 1917 , the sinking got both sides into sending war ships to the area wich triggered the Battle of Jutland... Although no one was killed ombord the SS NJ Fjord a lot of sailors lost their lives in the greatest sea Battle in WW 1 that followed ther sinking.

[christerd]

The S/S Hogarth built in 1893 for the Aberdeen Steam nav Co couldn´t show a similar place in history as NJ Fjord but her fate was moore horrorful. June 7th 1918 she was torpedoed by SM UB 107 under the command of KaptLeutn Eberhard von Prittwitz und Gaffron.

Of the 25 sailor on Hogarth only one survived the sinking. UB 107 didn´t make it until november and war end either, she probably hit a British mine in July/Aug 1918 and sank with all hands lost.

[Mervyn Mitton]

Christerd - some very interesting pictures and accounts. With the British ship - Duchess of York - why did the British

sink her - did the bombing from the Condor leave her in poor condition ? Mervyn

[christerd]

Hi Mervyn , Yes the Duchess of York was on fire and very bad damaged so they decided to sink her.

A couple of new ones

A.H.S Centaur was a former passenger ship that had been rebuild as an Hospital ship for the Australian Navy.

14th May 1943 there was 332 people ombord when she was hit by an torpedo fron the Japanese submarine I-177.

A nightmare followed, no life boats could be relaesed due to the extreme short time before she sunk (about 3 minutes)

and 268 of the nurses,wounded and sailors followed her to the deep. the survivors among them only one nurse could be saved after 36 hours. The sinking of Centaur was considered to be a war crime but since I-177 was sunk wiyh all hand in 1944 no one could be accused.

The sinking was

Edited January 23, 2012 by christerd

[christerd]

Another ship another disaster , only 6 people died when S/S Holme Force 1216t was torpedoed by a German E-boat August 8 1940, but for those 6 and their families and relatives the war had taken a cruel toll.

[christerd]

City of Wellington , 5733t build in 1925 for Ellerman Lines. She sailed for 17 years before her destiny met her outside the coast of Africa. 21th August 1942 she was hit and sunk by U-506. Of the crew on City of Wellington 7 was killed in the attack. The submarine itself only lived one year more before itself was sunk in July 1943 , only 6 sailors survived from U 506.

[christerd]

Japanese ships where sunk at great numbers during the second world war and US submarines played a very important part in isolating Japan from raw materiel.

SS Barracoo was built in 1919 by R Thompson and Sons LTD , Sunderland but wwas renamed in 1933 to Michalakis and in 1939 to Kusoyama Maru. With that name she went down after being torpedoed by USS Tunny 8February 1943 west Formosa.

[christerd]

S/S Zealandic was a very nice ship and also one of the worst disasters during the war , 10578t built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham 1928 she was a beauty. But the looks didnt help her or the people ombord, 17th January 1941 South of Island she was sunk by Jürgen Oesten in

U-106, three lifeboats was reported to have leave but nothing was heard from them again. All 73 from the ship perished, the journy in the lifeboats ending with death must have been terrible.

[christerd]

Even Fighting ships went down after being hit by torpedos. An example is HMS Salopian , built as MV Shropshire 10549t 1926.

She was torpedoed by U 98 east of Greenland May 13th 1941 , all on board could be saved by other british ships.

[Mervyn Mitton]

Christerd - this really is a good thread and some of the ships are fascinating. I hope you will continue to post and

if any postcards of a similar nature come-in to the shop I will let you know. Mervyn

[christerd]

Some new cards in my collection of Torpedoed Ships .

First a real tragic story and somewhat typical for the war in the Baltic sea.....

In the background we see a Swedish ship S/s Bengt Sture , in October 1942 she was going to Danzig with iron core.

But in the night she was torpedoed by the Soviet Sub SC 406. Of the crew of 14 men and one woman at least 7 survived the sinking among them the woman Ketty von Hamm. They were captured by SC 406 and brought to Leningrad, where they all later was executed by NKVD. A crime against all rules of sea and war of course but the Soviets did´t care much for rules or morale.