SS Scoresby
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Scoresby |
| Owner: | Rowland & Marwood's SS Co, Ltd |
| Operator: | Headlam & Son |
| Port of registry: | Whitby |
| Builder: | Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd, Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland |
| Yard number: | 316 |
| Completed: | January 1923 |
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| Fate: | sunk by torpedo, 17 October 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | cargo steamship |
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| Length: |
360.0 feet (109.7 m)p/p 371 ft 6 in (113.23 m) LOA |
| Beam: | 50.0 feet (15.2 m) |
| Draught: | 22 ft 6 3⁄4 in (6.88 m) |
| Depth: | 22.9 feet (7.0 m) |
| Installed power: | 340 NHP |
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| Speed: | 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h) |
| Crew: | 39 |
360.0 feet (109.7 m)p/p
SS Scoresby was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1923, sailed in a number of transatlantic convoys in 1940 and was sunk by a U-boat that October.
Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd of Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland built Scoresby, completing her in January 1923. She had eight corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 128 square feet (12 m2) that heated two 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 5,276 square feet (490 m2). The boilers fed a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine that was rated at 436 NHP and drove a single screw. The engine was built by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Co, Ltd, also of Sunderland.
Scoresby owner was Rowland and Marwood's Steam Ship Co, Ltd, who registered her in Whitby. She was managed by another Rowland and Marwood's company, Headlam & Sons.
By January 1940 Beatus was sailing in convoys. That month she sailed from Liverpool with Convoy OB-77 as far as the coast of Canada, whence she continued to San Domingo. In March she returned to the UK with a convoy of sugar, sailing via Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy HX-28 that reached Liverpool on 2 April.
In May 1940 Scoresby crossed the North Atlantic from Britain to Saint John, New Brunswick. She sailed with Convoy OA-150G from Southend, which merged with Convoy OA-150G off Land's End to form Convoy OG-30 to Gibraltar. In June she returned to the UK with a cargo of pit props, sailing via Halifax, Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy HX-53 that reached Liverpool on 10 July.
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