SS Lulworth Hill

History
United Kingdom
Name	SS Lulworth Hill
Owner	Dorset Steamship Co Ltd[1]
Operator	Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London[1]
Builder	William Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow[1]
Yard number	440[2]
Launched	24 June 1940
Completed	1940
Out of service	19 March 1943[2]
Identification	UK official number 167631[1] Call sign GMKG[1]
Fate	Sunk by torpedo
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Tonnage	7,628 GRT;[1] tonnage under deck 7,217;[1] 5,595 NRT[1]
Length	421.1 ft (128.4 m)[1]
Beam	60.4 ft (18.4 m)[1]
Draught	35.8 ft (10.9 m)[1]
Installed power	520 NHP;[1] 2,150 ihp[2]
Propulsion	3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine[1]
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h)[2]
Crew	39
Notes	sister ships: SS Kingston Hill, SS Marietta E, SS Michael E, SS Primrose Hill

SS Lulworth Hill was a British cargo ship completed by William Hamilton & Co in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in 1940.^[1] Lulworth Hill had a single 520 NHP triple-expansion steam engine^[1] driving a single screw. She had eight corrugated furnaces heating two 225 lb_f/in² single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 7,643 square feet (710 m²), plus one auxiliary boiler.^[1]

She was owned by Dorset Steamships Co Ltd and managed by Counties Ship Management Co Ltd of London^[1] (CSM), both of which were offshoots of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company.^[3] She was a sister ship of SS Kingston Hill, SS Marietta E, SS Michael E and SS Primrose Hill, which were also managed by CSM but owned by other R&K companies.

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Approximate position of the sinking of Lulworth Hill in the South Atlantic.