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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Starboard broadside view of the S.S. EMBASSAGE, Cardiff Docks c. 1936
Built 1935 by J L Thompson & Sons, Sunderland for Hall Brothers Steamship Co. Ltd., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. On 27 August 1941, ss EMABASSAGE was in convoy OS-4 and was torpedoed and sunk by U-557 about 100 miles west of Achill Island. The master (Capt. Edward Kiddie), 32 crew members and 6 gunners were lost. Three crew members were picked up after four days by the Canadian destroyer HMCS ASSINIBOINE and landed at Greenock.
