Hello from Ralph Brammer

[Bob McGahey]

Hi Ralph,
If you go http//www.Hartlepool shipbuilders,com there is a picture of the Parracombe
She was built by grays of hartlepool in 1928. there are all the details of her . The Welcombe no picture. They are under Grays and pages 30 & 26. They were owned by Pyman Bros shipping.and sold on to Stanhope shipping no name change due to the war . Both lost april 1941

Regards Bob McGahey

[Tony Wilding]

HI thats a great website, just looked, never knew it existed, the photo of SS Paracombe is so clear, when enlarged you can see the crew on the bridge, thanks , Tony W.

[RALPH BRAMMER]

Thank you for the posting on Parracombe. I have downloaded the photograph. We have an interesting document concerning a voyage of this ship. George Grant wrote an account of a particular voyage on the Parracombe, starting on 14 September 1937, from the Tyne. The Master was Captain J Hart and George Grant was the second mate. He describes the various cargoes that were taken and the ports visited. The voyage lasted 299 days, with 196 days at sea. They travelled 42,275 nautical miles using 5,000 tons of coal. I could give more detail of this if anyone is interested. This account is part of a dissertation on Bulk Cargoes, which George Grant submitted as part of a degree course, which he did while in the RAF in Cambridge during WWII.

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