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Welcombe

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1930 Welcombe Pyman Bros.
1940 Welcombe Stanhope Steamship Co. Ltd.

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by U-98 (Robert Gysae)in the North Atlantic on April 4th, 1941. The ship was on a voyage from Baltimore to the UK with a cargo of grain. Master Richard Edgar Johnson. 15 hands were lost.

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