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Introduction
Ainderby was a cargo ship build in 1925 and sunk in 1941 during WW2
Basic Data
- Type: Cargo ship
- Registered owners,managers and operators: Ropner Shipping Co. Ltd
- Builders: Wm. Gray & Co.
- Yard: West Hartlepool
- Country: UK
- Yard number: 973
- Registry: N/K
- Official number: 139237
- Signal letters: N/K
- Call sign: N/K
- Classification society: N/K
- Gross tonnage: 4,860 grt
- Net tonnage: N/K
- Deadweight: N/K
- Length: 118.9 m
- Breadth: 16.8 m
- Depth: N/K
- Draught: N/K
- Engines: Single triple expansion steam engine
- Engine builders: N/K
- Works: N/K
- Country: N/K
- Power: N/K
- Propulsion: N/K
- Speed: 10 knots
- Boilers: N/K
- Cargo capacity:N/K
- Crew: N/K
Career Highlights
- 8 June 1925: Launched by Wm Gray and Co
- July 1925: Completed
- 10 June 1941: Sunk
Service Pre-War
No information is currently available
Participation in WW2 Convoys
The data in the following table has been extracted from External Resource #1.
A key to the routes for these convoys can be found on this page: World War 2 Convoy Names
Ainderby took part in 11 convoys in all. No information has come to light about damage during this period.
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List of Convoys
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| Convoy No.
| Route
| Convoy No.
| Route
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| OA.27
| Oct 1939: Southend - Dispersed
| SL/MKS.19F
| Feb 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
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| FS.126
| Mar 1940: Tyne - Southend
| FN.117
| Mar 1940: Southend - Methil
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| OA.116
| Mar 1940: Southend - Dispersed 47.15N 15.38W
| FS.26
| Oct 1939: Methil - Southend
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| HX.39
| Apr 1940: Halifax - Liverpool
| OB.162
| Jun 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed
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| OB.178
| Jul 1940: Liverpool - Dispersed
| SL/MKS.51S
| Oct 1940: Freetown - Liverpool
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| OB.268
| Jan 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed
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Ainderby was torpedoed and sunk by U-552 130 miles off Bloody Foreland on the 10th June 1941 while sailing independently from Santos to the Tyne with a cargo of iron ore. 11 crew and 1 DEMS gunner were killed. The Captain, 27 crew and 1 gunner were rescued by the destroyer HMS VETERAN and landed at Greenock
U552 appears to have been one of the most succesful U-boats - further details about it are at External Resource #2
External resources
- Miramar Ship Index: Miramar Ship Index
- Ubootwaffe Website: Ubootwaffe.net
Images
- From the Allen Collection The Allen Collection
Contributors
- Basic information by Billy McGee
- Additional information and layout of entry by Benjidog
