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Photo of SS Audrey

A general cargo ship built as part of the WWll Liberty Ship programme seen here with a load of timber

Photo of SS Bradglen

Owned by William Reardon Smith & Sons
Built in 1930 by William Gray & Co, West Hartlepool
Mined in 1941 off Harwich on passage Jacksonville and Halifax for London with the loss of 9 crew.

photo of SS Brettenham unloading timber

SS Brettenham was built in Dundee for the Ministry of War Transport as Empire Bard in 1941 and was a member of a number of Russian convoys.
After the war sold and renamed Angusburn until 1955 when sold again and renamed Brettenham. Scrapped in 1971

Photo of SS Campus

Built in 1925 by Northumberland Shipbuilding on the Tyne.
Seen here at the dockside with a cargo of timber
Owned by W.H. Seager & Co Ltd group
Sold on in 1946 and broken up in 1952

Photo of SS Cetus

Norwegian flagged general cargo ship seen here with timber on deck. Built in Port Glasgow in 1920 as Moto. Sailed in convoys in WWll

Photo of SS Duke of Sparta

General cargo ship built in 1940 by William Gray & Co in West Hartlepool.
As SS Aquila was bombed and sunk in 1958 of Indonesia as part of a CIA backed operation by rebels.

Photo of SS Dunsley

General cargo ship built in 1929 by Robert Thompson & Sons, Southwick for Headlam & Sons, Whitby. Eventually broken up in 1961

Photo of SS Fort Jasper

A WWll Fort type cargo ship built in North Vancouver, Canada as part of an emergency shipbuilding programme. Broken up in 1959.

Photo of SS Fylingdale

General cargo ship seen here unloading timber.
Built in 1924 by J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. on Wearside. wrecked in 1962

Photo of SS Graig

Owned by Graig Shipping.
General cargo ship built in 1924 by Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow.
Stranded and later broke in two off Egg Island, 28 miles east of Halifax when outward for Aberdeen with lumber.
Both sections refloated and broken up at Halifax.