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Somersby

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1930 Somersby Ropner Shipping Co. Ltd.

Fate

In convoy SC-30 Somersby sailed from Halifax NS on 29 April 1941 on a voyage for Loch Ewe with a cargo of grain & a total compliment of 43 she became a straggler & was torpedoed by German submarine U-111 (Wilhelm Kleinschmidt) & sank SW of Reykjavik on 13 May 1941. Master John William Thompson.

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