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Post by Administrator on Apr 6, 2008 20:48:51 GMT
EMPIRE TOWER
6/3/1943
In Memory of
Donkeyman DANIEL MURPHY
S.S. Empire Tower (London), Merchant Navy
who died age 43
on 05 March 1943
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Post by Administrator on Apr 6, 2008 20:49:52 GMT
EMPIRE TOWER
Ministry of War Transport (Counties Ship Management Co.);
1935; Burntisland S.B. Co.; 4,378 tons; 372x52-4x25-2;
335 n.h.p.; triple-expansion engines.
The steamship Empire Tower, on a voyage from Gibraltar to
Middlesbrough, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine
on March 5th, 1943, about 250 miles W. of Cape Finisterre. Fortyone
of her complement of 47 were lost.
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Post by Administrator on Apr 6, 2008 20:50:21 GMT
1935 ROXBURGH, B.J. Sutherland & Co. Ltd. Newcastle.
1937 TOWER FIELD, Counties Ship Management, London.
19.10.41 Stranded at Workington, repaired as -
1941 EMPIRE TOWER, MOWT managed by Counties S.M., London.
5.3.43 Torpedoed and sunk by U.130 at 43.50N 14.46W
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