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Anglesea

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1917 Anglesea Cardigan Steamship Co. Ltd.
1921 Anglesea Anglesea Steamship Co. Ltd.
1923 Portgwarra Portfield Steamship Co. Ltd.
1932 Thomas Walton New Era Steamship Co. Ltd.
1937 Thomas Walton Coronation Steamship Co. Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from Port Talbot for Narvick in ballast Thomas Walton was torpedoed by German submarine U-38 (Heinrich Liebe) & sank off the Lofoten Islands, North-West Norway on 7 December 1939. Master Percy Dudley Townsend. Thirteen crew members were lost.

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