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3rd January 2025, 07:29 PM
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Ship Bolton Hall
Question by Tony Emptage
Can anybody help me please? I am trying to find if there is a trip list for the SS Bolton Hall (or Boltonhall). I have found that it was part of the arctic convoys but cant find anything else about it.
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3rd January 2025, 07:31 PM
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Re: Ship Bolton Hall
Hi Tony
Depending on the Year or Years you are referring to, here is a link that covers the War Years, its free at the National Archives , but you must sign in to download the Movement File.
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Boltonhall Built as Merchant Knight.
Ship Name: Bolton Hall 160775 Former Ship Name: Merchant Knight, Bolton Hall ... | The National Archives
Ship Name: Merchant Knight Former Ship Name: Boltonhall Gross Tonnage: ... | The National Archives
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4th January 2025, 12:39 AM
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Hi Tony.
Looked up in my book of ships sunk during the war just in case, as you say she was on the Arctic convoys, but no ship by that name lost through enemy action..
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4th January 2025, 07:25 PM
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BOLTON HALL
O.N.160775
410.0 x 54.8 x 24.5 feet.
Single screw Q. 4-cyl. (18.6", 25.5", x 41.5 x 61") by Central Marine Engineering Works.
28.10.1935: Launched by Wm. Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool for Wilton Hall S.S. Co Ltd. (Guthe Brothers, managers), West Hatlepool.
1948: Sold and renamed MERCHANT KNIGHT, Drake Shipping Co. (Lykladuplo) London.
1951: Sold and renamed MAI RICKMERS Rickmers Linie M.B.H., Hamburg
30.12.1961: Arrived Kobe for demolition.
Vic
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9th January 2025, 08:39 PM
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Re: Ship Bolton Hall
I am trying to find if the SS Bolton hall visited Newport Docks, South Wales in April/May 1948. Does anyone know where the ship's log book for 1948 is deposited or records of the trips that the ship made in 1948?
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9th January 2025, 08:48 PM
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9th January 2025, 11:46 PM
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Best try the obvious first if they keep records going back as far ? And that’s the harbour masters office. JS
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