SS Marietta E
| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | SS Marietta E |
| Owner: | Leith Hill Shipping Co Ltd[1] |
| Operator: | Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London[1][2] |
| Builder: | William Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow[1][2] |
| Completed: | June 1940[2] |
| Out of service: | 4 March 1943[2] |
| Identification: | UK official number 167596[1] |
| Fate: | Sunk by torpedo[2] |
| Status: | wreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | cargo ship |
| Tonnage: | 7,628 GRT tonnage under deck 7,217[1] 5,595 NRT[1] |
| Length: | 421.1 ft (128.4 m)[1] p/p |
| Beam: | 60.4 ft (18.4 m)[1] |
| Draught: | 28 ft 2 1⁄2 in (8.60 m) |
| Depth: | 35.8 ft (10.9 m)[1][1] |
| Installed power: | 520 NHP[1] |
| Propulsion: | triple-expansion steam engine; single screw[1] |
| Crew: | 45[2] |
| Notes: | sister ships: SS Kingston Hill, SS Lulworth Hill, SS Michael E, SS Primrose Hill |
SS Marietta E was a British cargo ship completed by William Hamilton & Co in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in June 1940.[1] She had a single 520 NHP triple-expansion steam engine built by David Rowan and Company of Glasgow,[1] that drove a single screw. She had eight corrugated furnaces heating two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 7,643 square feet (710 m2), plus one auxiliary boiler.[1]
She was owned by Leith Hill Shipping Co Ltd and managed by Counties Ship Management Co Ltd of London[1] (CSM), both of which were offshoots of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company.[3] She was named after Marietta E Kulukundis, a member of the Kulukundis family that had a major shareholding in her.[3]
Marietta E was a sister ship of SS Michael E, SS Lulworth Hill and SS Primrose Hill, which also were managed by CSM and owned by companies associated with R&K.
Sinking
Early in 1943 she sailed from New York, bound for Alexandria in Egypt via Durban and Aden.[2] She was laden with a cargo of government and commercial stores and deck cargo of eight LCPL landing craft.[2] In Durban she joined convoy DN-21 to Alexandria via Aden.[2] At 0346 hrs on 4 March in the Indian Ocean east of East London, German submarine U-160 fired two torpedoes at the convoy, one of which sank the Marietta E killing four crew and one DEMS gunner.[2] South African Navy rescue launch R8 rescued the Master, 33 crew and six DEMS gunners and landed them at Durban.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Lloyd's Register, Steam Ships and motorships (PDF). Lloyd's Register. 1943. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010). "Marietta E.". uboat.net. Guðmundur Helgason. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fenton, Roy (2006). "Counties Ship Management 1934-2007". LOF-News. p. 1. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
Further reading
- Sedgwick, Stanley; Kinnaird, Mark; O'Donoghue, K.J. (1993) [1992]. London & Overseas Freighters, 1948-92: A Short History. World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-68-1.
- Sedgwick, Stanley; Sprake, R.F. (1977). London & Overseas Freighters Limited 1949-1977. World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-01-0.