SS Magdapur

History
Name: SS Magdapur
Owner: Thos & Jno Brocklebank, Liverpool
Builder: Lithgows, Port Glasgow[1]
Yard number: 730[2]
Laid down: 1920
Launched: 17 November 1920[1]
Identification:
  • Code Letters GDXZ
  • [2]
Fate: Mined and sunk 10 September 1939[1]
General characteristics
Type: cargo ship
Tonnage:
  • 9,237 GRT until 1935;
  • 8,641 GRT after 1935[1]
Length:
  • 499.6 ft (152.3 m) until 1935;[1]
  • 473 ft (144 m) after 1935[1]
Beam: 64 ft (20 m)[1]
Draught: 34.2 ft (10.4 m)[2]
Installed power: Two steam turbines double reduction geared to single screw; 1,147 horsepower (855 kW); two double ended & two single ended boilers, 24 corrugated furnaces engine[2]
Propulsion: single propeller[2]
Speed: 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)[2]
Capacity: 80 crew

SS Magdapur was a cargo ship mined and sunk off Thorpeness, Suffolk, by a Nazi German submarine in the Second World War.

The SS Magdapur sailed for the Brocklebank Line.

On 10 September 1939, 1 week after the declaration of war, she was underway in ballast from Tyne to Southampton, her master was Arthur Dixon.[1] On that day she struck by a mine laid by the German submarine U-13.[3] She sank at 17:25. Six people died as a result of the attack, but 75 people were rescued from the sea by the Aldeburgh Lifeboat.[4] Her crew included lascars.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cameron, Stuart. "SS Magdapur". Clydebuilt database. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Martien, Slaats. "SS Magdapur [+1939]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "U 13". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net.
  4. ↑ Pears, Brian & Ripley, Roy. Website: "North East Diary". Entry for Sunday, 10th September 1939 D8. http://www.ne-diary.bpears.org.uk/Inc/ISeq_01.html
  5. ↑ "Unlucky 13". Loose minute. Unknown author. (Note that the Magdapur was not the first English ship to be sunk in the Second World War) http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEVkCc7YpV_U0AnH8nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bzdzZnZlBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDRkZYVUkyOF8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1435196957/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fthebertonandeastbridge.onesuffolk.net%2fassets%2fHistory-Photos%2fS.S.-Magdapur-sunk-off-Sizewell.doc/RK=0/RS=YjvL6pH.4F2N7XPPdYsa5mPGUus-

Coordinates: 52°11′N 1°43′E / 52.183°N 1.717°E / 52.183; 1.717

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