TIBERTON

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Photographer:

Paul Wille [ View profile ]

Title:

Tiberton

Location:

Vancouver, Canada

Photo Category:

General Cargo Ships Built Before 1940 (over 3000gt)

Added:

Oct 7, 2017

Views:

627

Image Resolution:

3,000 x 1,638

Description:

TIBERTON
R. Chapman & Son, Newcastle upon Tyne
3/1920
Richardson, Duck & Co Ltd, Stockton on Tees

Vancouver, date unknown
City of Vancouver Archives
Photo by Walter E. Frost

19 February 1940- Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-23 under the command of Otto Kretschmer whilst transporting her cargo of iron ore to Middlesbrough from Narvik.
All 33 of her crew were killed