SS Thistlegorm

Steam windlass and mooring winches aboard Thistlegorm
History
United Kingdom
OwnerAlbyn Line
OperatorAlbyn, Black & Co
Port of registrySunderland
BuilderJ.L. Thompson and Sons, Sunderland
Yard number599
Launched9 April 1940
Sponsored byMrs KW Black
Completed24 June 1940
Identification
FateSunk by German aircraft 6 October 1941
General characteristics
TypeCargo ship
Tonnage4,898 GRT, 2,750 NRT
Displacementc.13,000 tons fully loaded
Length415.1 ft (126.5 m)
Beam58.2 ft (17.7 m)
Draught26 ft (7.9 m)
Depth24.8 ft (7.6 m)
Decks1
Installed power365 NHP, 1,850 IHP
Propulsion
Crew41
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
  • 1 × 4 in (100 mm) low angle gun
  • 1 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun[1]

SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea in 1941. Her wreck near Ras Muhammad is now a well-known diving site.[2]

  1. ^ Admiralty record AFO 1524/41.
  2. ^ "The Thistlegorm Project".