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Collection of correspondence, shipping & coal cos.
Correspondence/Receipt :
From Charles Cravos & co. (Ampleforth Steamship Co.Ltd.) to Italian State Railways, in respect of cheque re AMPLLEFORTH balance of freight, 1938
S.S. AMPLEFORTH (4576 gt). Built at Stockton-on-Tees in 1929 as GLOFIELD for Humphries & Co. of Cardiff and was bought by Cravos in 1932. Torpedoed and sunk by U-101 west of the Hebrides at 0154 on 18 August 1940. She was a straggler from Convoy OA-199. Nine crew members were lost. The master and 28 other survivors were rescued by the destroyer HMS WARWICK and taken to Liverpool.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
88.77I/14
Acquisition
Purchase, 15/8/1988
Measurements
Length
(mm): 253
Width
(mm): 202
Material
paper
Location
In store
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