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SS Gracechurch - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 58°29′N 6°29′W / 58.48°N 06.49°W

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History

United Kingdom
Name	Gracechurch^[1]
Owner	Gracechurch Shipping Co.^[1]
Operator	James, Muers & Co.^[1]
Port of registry	London^[2]
Builder	William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland^[2]^[3]
Launched	25 February 1930^[3]
Completed	April 1930^[2]^[3]
Out of service	1933^[1]
Identification	Code Letters LFSR ^[2] UK official number 161390^[2]
Fate	Sold^[1]
Name	Peebles^[4]
Owner	B.J. Sutherland & Co^[1]
Operator	B.J. Sutherland & Co
Port of registry	Newcastle-upon-Tyne^[1]
Acquired	1933^[1]
Out of service	1936^[1]
Fate	Sold
Name	Mill Hill^[4]
Namesake	Mill Hill, north London
Owner	Mill Hill Steam Ship Co, Ltd.^[4]
Operator	Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London^[1]^[3]
Port of registry	Newcastle-upon-Tyne^[4]
Acquired	1936^[1]
Identification	Call sign GTJL ^[4] UK official number 161390^[4]
Fate	Sunk by torpedo 30 August 1940^[1]^[3]
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Tonnage	4,318 GRT;^[2] tonnage under deck 4,025;^[2] 2,600 NRT^[2]
Length	320.4 ft (97.7 m)^[2]
Beam	52.9 ft (16.1 m)^[2]
Height	24.9 ft (7.6 m)^[2]
Installed power	368 NHP^[2]
Propulsion	3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine;^[2] single screw
Crew	34^[3]

SS Gracechurch was a UK 4,318 GRT cargo ship built by William Doxford & Sons at Pallion on Wearside in 1930.^[2] She twice changed owners and names, becoming SS Peebles in 1933 and SS Mill Hill in 1936. She was sunk by a German submarine in August 1940.

Engines

The ship had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 187 square feet (17 m²) feeding three 180 lb_f/in² single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 6,105 square feet (567 m²).^[2]

Names and owners

Gracechurch was first owned by Gracechurch Shipping Co of Newcastle and managed by James, Muers & Co of Cardiff.^[1] In 1933 she was sold to B.J. Sutherland & Co who renamed her Peebles.

In 1936 she was sold to the Mill Hill Steam Ship Co Ltd,^[4] which was controlled by Counties Ship Management (an offshoot of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company of London^[5]) who renamed her Mill Hill.^[1]

Loss

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Approximate position of Gracechurch's wreck

On 16 August 1940 Mill Hill left Halifax, Nova Scotia as a member of convoy HX 66A laden with pig iron and scrap steel^[6] for Middlesbrough, England.^[3] Between 0220 and 0248 hrs on 30 August 58 miles off Cape Wrath in the north of Scotland U-32 torpedoed the convoy, sinking three ships.^[3] One was Mill Hill, which sank within a few minutes with the loss of all hands.^[3]

Replacement ships

Gracechurch was the third of four ships that B.J. Sutherland & Co named Peebles.^[1] When Sutherland sold her in 1936, William Doxford & Sons completed a new 4,982-ton cargo ship MV Peebles for Sutherland.^[1] She survived the Second World War and in 1951 Sutherland sold her to Westralian Farmers Transport who renamed her Swanstream.^[1] In 1957 Westralian sold to J. Manners & Co. of Hong Kong who renamed her San Fernando.^[1] In 1965 Manners sold to her to Yong & Lee Timber who renamed her Phoenician Star.^[1] She was scrapped at Hong Kong in 1967.^[1]

Gracechurch was the first of two ships that Counties Ship Management named Mill Hill. In 1947 CSM bought the 7,219-ton Liberty ship SS Samdon and renamed her SS Mill Hill. Samdon had been built by New England Shipbuilding Corporation of Portland, Maine in 1943.^[7] In 1949 she was transferred from CSM to a new Rethymnis and Kulukundis company, London and Overseas Freighters, retaining the name Mill Hill. In 1951 LOF sold her to new owners who renamed her Educator.^[5] She was scrapped in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1961.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t Swiggum, S (1997–2010). "B.J. Sutherland & Co., Ltd. Newcastle upon Tyne 1892-1954". The Ships List. S Swiggum, M Kohli. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1932. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010). "Mill Hill". uboat.net. Guðmundur Helgason. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1935. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^ ^a ^b Fenton, Roy (2006). "Counties Ship Management 1934-2007". LOF-News. p. 1. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
^ Slader 1988, p. 63.
^ "Lloyd's Register of Shipping". London: Lloyd's Register. 1943. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
^ "Liberty Ships - S". Mariners. Retrieved 26 July 2010.

Sources & further reading

Sedgwick, Stanley (1993) [1992]. Kinnaird, Mark; O'Donoghue, K.J. (eds.). 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 0905617037.
Slader, John (1988). The Red Duster at War. London: William Kimber & Co Ltd. p. 63. ISBN 0-7183-0679-1.

58°29′N 6°29′W / 58.48°N 06.49°W / 58.48; -06.49

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in August 1940
Shipwrecks	1 Aug: HMS Oswald, HMS Spearfish 3 Aug: U-25 7 Aug: Mohamed Ali El-Kebir 8 Aug: Ajax, Empire Crusader, Ouse 10 Aug: HMS Transylvania 15 Aug: Elli 19 Aug: HMS Corfu 20 Aug: U-51 21 Aug: Anglo Saxon 22 Aug: Iride 23 Aug: HMS Hostile 24 Aug: USS Peacock, HMS Penzance 25 Aug: Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan Castle 29 Aug: I-67 30 Aug: Mill Hill 31 Aug: HMS Esk, Har Zion Unknown date: J. W. Clise
Other incidents	11 Aug: Ceramic, Testbank 18 Aug: Von der Groeben 23 Aug: Düsseldorf 26 Aug: I-58 31 Aug: HMS Express, Volendam
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