An Empire ship is a merchant ship that was given a name beginning with Empire in the service of the Government of the United Kingdom during and after World War II. Most were used by the Ministry of War Transport, which owned them and contracted their operation to various shipping companies of the British Merchant Navy. Empire ships came from two main sources: new construction, and capture and.
Empire Broadsword was a Type C1-S-AY-1 infantry landing ship built in 1943 as Cape Marshall. She was renamed Empire Broadsword before completion and entering into service for the Ministry of War Transport. She had a short career, entering service in December.
Empire Fowey was a 19,121 GRT ocean liner that was built in 1935 as Potsdam by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for the Hamburg America Line.She was sold before completion to Norddeutscher Lloyd.While owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd she was one of three sister ships operating the service between Bremen and the Far East. Her sister ships were SS Scharnhorst and SS Gneisenau.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Empire Frost was a 7,005 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1940 by Lithgows, Port Glasgow for the Ministry of War Transport. She was bombed and sunk in St Georges Channel on 13 March 1941 on the return leg of her maiden voyage .
Empire Cromwell departed Cape Town on 4 November, for Trinidad and New York, United States. She was carrying 1,000 tons of chrome ore . At 02:17 German time on 28 November, Empire Cromwell was torpedoed and sunk at 9°00?N 58°30?W ? / ? 9.000°N 58.500°W ? / 9.000; -58.500 by U-508 , [17] under the command of Georg Staats, The SS Empire Heritage was built in 1930 by Armstrong Whitworth & Company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but actually started life under another name as Tafelberg, a 15,000-ton steam tanker. It was first used in South Africa as whale factory ship until January 1941 when it was hit by a mine and put out of service.
The SS Empire Heritage, a cargo ship carrying oil, US-made Sherman tanks and half-tracks, was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Some 113 people were killed in the disaster. At 05.51 hours on 8 Sep 1944, U-482 fired a torpedo spread at the convoy HX-305 north-northeast of Tory Island and heard a detonation and sinking noises.
Empire Heritage: Type: Steam tanker: Tonnage: 15,702 tons (one of the largest ships sunk). Completed: 1930 – Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Owner: Christian Salvesen & Co, Edinburgh : Homeport: Cardiff : Date of attack: 8 Sep 1944: Nationality: British : Fate: Sunk by U-482 (Hartmut Graf von Matuschka, Freiherr von Toppolczan und Spaetgen)
