Heworth
Names and owners
Year
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Name
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Owner
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1924
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Heworth
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Burnett S.S. Co. Ltd.
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1934
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Heworth
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Gascony S.S. Co. Ltd.
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1935
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Heworth
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Tanfield S.S. Co. Ltd.
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Fate
On a voyage from London for Sunderland in ballast & with a crew of 23 & 1 passenger she was bombed by German aircraft 10 miles south of Aldeburgh lightship, Orford Ness on 15 July 1940. She was taken in tow but sank off the East Shipwash buoy. The survivors were picked up by the SS Valorous.
4 lives lost - Williams, James Fox, master, 69, Sunderland; Alderson, John, fireman, 48, North Shields; Charlton, Joseph Polley, steward, 47, Sunderland; Thomson, Samuel Goodwin, 3rd engineer officer, 19, Ryton, Durham.
