Hartlepool Sports & Leisure
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A Potted History Of Hartlepool
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Hartlepool at War
Hartlepool Ships & Shipping
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Ruckinge | Constants Ltd. |
In convoy HG-76 on a voyage from Lisbon for Oban with a general cargo including wood, base metal & foodstuffs & a total complement of 42 Ruckinge was torpedoed by German submarine U-108 (Klaus Scholtz) & sank about 300 miles off Lisbon on 19 December 1941. Master Walter Albert Ross. Three hands were lost.
