SS Lulworth Hill
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS Lulworth Hill |
| Owner: | Dorset Steamship Co Ltd |
| Operator: | Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London |
| Builder: | William Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow |
| Yard number: | 440 |
| Launched: | September 1940 |
| Completed: | 1940 |
| Out of service: | 19 March 1943 |
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| Fate: | Sunk by torpedo |
| Status: | wreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | cargo ship |
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| Length: | 421.1 ft (128.4 m) |
| Beam: | 60.4 ft (18.4 m) |
| Draught: | 35.8 ft (10.9 m) |
| Installed power: | 520 NHP; 2,150 ihp |
| Propulsion: | 3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Crew: | 39 |
| Notes: | sister ships: SS Kingston Hill, SS Marietta E, SS Michael E, SS Primrose Hill |
SS Lulworth Hill was a British cargo ship completed by William Hamilton & Co in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in 1940.Lulworth Hill had a single 520 NHP triple-expansion steam engine driving 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.
She was owned by Dorset Steamships Co Ltd and managed by Counties Ship Management Co Ltd of London (CSM), both of which were offshoots of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company. She was a sister ship of SS Kingston Hill, SS Marietta E, SS Michael E and SS Primrose Hill, which were also managed by CSM but owned by other R&K companies.
The Italian navy submarine Leonardo da Vinci torpedoed the Lulworth Hill in the South Atlantic on 19 March 1943. 14 survivors made it onto a life raft. One source, seemingly quoting one of only three men to survive the sinking and subsequent ordeal on the life raft, states that the Germans surfaced and machine gunned the survivors; however, this is unlikely as the submarine was not German and the only other survivor of the life raft, in his book of the events, made no such accusation. The Leonardo da Vinci captured and took on board one survivor of the sinking, James Leslie Hull. After 29 days the UK authorities assumed that the Lulworth Hill had been lost with all hands and duly informed their families.
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