Shields Gazette

[John Arton]

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/cookso...aves-1-6575785
Interesting article in todays Shields Gazette, though if you read it and then examine the picture of the tramp, it appears to have a different name from the Hopewood.
Anyone got any ideas if the article is correctly naming the ship.
rgds
JA

[cappy]

a truly interesting story.....there must be many like that in the countrys seaports .......i have a dischage paper for the cairncross on 104251 959 tons130 hp for a trip to rosario in 1896 of an ......great uncle who was ab.....he did a few trips in her so must have liked it .......proper seamen the old timers

[Ian Malcolm]

John

Extracted from my book SHIPPING COMPANY LOSSES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

SILVERBELLE (Captain H. Rowe). Bound for Liverpool from Durban, sailed in Convoy SL.87 which contained 11 ships and left Freetown on 14 September, 1941. Torpedoed by U.68 (KrvKpt. Karl-Friedrich Merten) at 2.23am on the 22^nd. Taken in tow, in succession, by the sloop HMS Gorleston, (Cdr. R.W. Keymer) the Free French sloop Commandant Duboc and the ASW trawler HMS Lady Shirley (LtCdr. A.H. Callaway), but sank on the 29^th in position 26º30´N 23º14´W. All 60 picked up by the escort.

For details of other ships sunk in Convoy SL.87, see under Dixcove, ELDER-DEMPSTER LINE.