Hain Steamship Co

[Keith at Tregenna]

Hi Kieth you can get this at most W.H.Smiths, but if you cannot let me know and I'll scan it for you

Tied up with an RAF assignment, out of my norm, near M - F, (9 - 5)

Will check out all as advised, pos with current hours, will be Saturday.

If all becomes negative, will take up your offer.

Cheers,

K.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Tied up with an RAF assignment, out of my norm, near M - F, (9 - 5)

Will check out all as advised, pos with current hours, will be Saturday.

If all becomes negative, will take up your offer.

Cheers,

K.

Keith

Have scanned the article, but computer (a few days ago) has deleted most of my contact's numbers, yours included so if you send me your email address again to ivan@ijcinternational.com I will endeavour to transmit them to you. My computer skills are not what they should be so you may have to bear with me.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Keith

Have scanned the article, but computer (a few days ago) has deleted most of my contact's numbers, yours included so if you send me your email address again to: .

Just in, checked mail, all seems to have arrived - cannot thank you enough for that. Will read all later.

Regards,

Keith.

[Brian payne]

I sailed on the Trevelyan,about the same time,not very good with dates now.always finished in Western Australia loading grain for uk.i went back to Geraldton wa last year,the grain silos were still there.

[gray_marian]

#14, Welcome Brian, Hope you enjoy all that this site has to offer.

[Keith at Tregenna]

The Hain Steamship Company:

Operator of worldwide tramp services based in the UK

http://www.poheritage.com/our-histor...amship-company

[Keith at Tregenna]

THE TREGENNA

Picture yourself in a convoy on a wild September day,

Astern of a ship named Tregenna – just three cables away,

She’s steaming along at eight knots, with a cargo of steel in the hold,

Pitching heavy in head seas, into the spray and the cold


When all of a sudden a U-boat dodging the escort screen,

Fired a salvo of tinfish, tracking through fast… unseen,

This lethal spread of torpedoes became Tregenna`s death knell,

Just as her bow descended, headlong into the swell.


It was a fatal plunge that the ship was in,

Breached below her deck-line, through the plates so thin,

Her freight stowed heavy and low, beneath an empty space,

Quickly led to foundering, when water took its place.


The ocean rushed in so quickly, leaving no time to prepare,

She dived on her nose and kept going, stern shot high in the air,

The watch on the bridge jumped clear, perchance or not to drown,

Only four abandoned her - as the ship went down.


Now you have the story when in the vessel astern,

Two minutes it took to reach there, horrified to learn,

There was no sign of Tregenna - just Atlantic waves,

Thirty three men within her, bound to deep sea graves.


Sinkings were so frequent on a convoy’s run,

But our merchant seamen still defied the Hun,

One reason why our monument stands there to remember,

Is for the likes of these men, who died here that September.

　

The Tregenna sailed from Halifax in convoy HX71 on 5th. September 1940.

On September 17th. The U-65 fired the torpedoes that struck the Tregenna just as the ship pitched forward. She did not recover and stood vertically, briefly, before sinking. She was 413ft. long carrying 8,500 tons of steel

This catastrophe was observed by men of the Filleigh who were in station less than two minutes travelling time directly astern of Tregenna.

According to the 2nd. Mate, she had sunk in less than forty seconds.

There were four survivors.

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Just a part of all and more, means much to me and mine, K

http://joesverse.simplesite.com/160596390

[Ian Roberts]

Hi Fellow Mariners

I served on MV Trelawny as junior apprentice from November 1960 to February 1961 Capt was Lloyd and First Mate P Sadler other apprentices were G Quick (St Ives lad) and T Raddings from Grimsby, then Trevelyan from Feb 61 to Dec 61 Captain Boyd and First Mate Marchant fellow appretices were R Wingate who then sailed as 3rd Mate and then P Triggs who jumped in Australia.

I often wonder what happened to them and why I gave up on the sea.

I served on most of the Hain ships and the Hain Nourse from 1960, my first ship as a first trip apprentice was the new Trewidden second was the Trevose then all the Fleet up to the bulkers and finally stood by the SD14s during the building and maiden voyage before joining the cargo dept.in the London docks. I think I sailed with R.Wingate, did he be ginger hair?.