SS Nailsea Meadow

History
Great Britain
Name: SS Nailsea Meadow
Namesake: (Believed) Nailsea
Owner: Wales E.R. Management Co Ltd, Cardiff[1]
Port of registry: Wales Cardiff, Wales[2]
Route: Hampton Roads - New York - Trinidad - Capetown - Durban - Bombay - Karachi[3]
Builder: England Bartram & Sons Ltd, South Dock, Sunderland[4]
Launched: 18 December 1936[5]
Completed: 23 February 1937
Fate: Torpedoed by U-196
Status: Sunk
Notes: Torpedoed by U-196. Lies 40 miles south of Port St. Johns, Cape Colony.[6]
General characteristics
Tonnage: 4,962 tons[7]
Crew: 44 crew

SS Nailsea Meadow was a freighter sunk in the Second World War by the German Submarine U-196 on the 11th of May 1943. She was transporting tanks and supplies to the Eighth Army under General Montgomery in Egypt.[8]

Wreck

The Nailsea Meadow was found in 1997 by Emlyn Brown working with National Underwater and Marine Agency and Clive Cussler, believing it to be the lost SS Waratah.[9] On closer examination in 2001, it was declared to be the Nailsea Meadow.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2918.html
  2. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2918.html
  3. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2918.html
  4. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2918.html
  5. ↑ http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland141.html
  6. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2918.html
  7. ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2918.html
  8. ↑ Cussler, Clive. The Sea Hunters II. p. 270. Retrieved 29 Sep 2014.
  9. ↑ http://www.numa.net/expeditions/waratah/


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