SS Empire Tower
SS Empire Tower was a British 4,378 GRT cargo ship built in 1935 and sunk by enemy action in 1943. She was built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd. in Fife, Scotland. The North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Sunderland built her 335 NHP three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine. She had six corrugated furnaces with a combined heating surface of 117 square feet (11 m2) heat to heat her three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of 5,445 square feet (506 m2). She was fitted with direction finding equipment.
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SS Empire Tower
SS Empire Tower was a British 4,378 GRT cargo ship built in 1935 and sunk by enemy action in 1943. She was built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd. in Fife, Scotland. The North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Sunderland built her 335 NHP three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine. She had six corrugated furnaces with a combined heating surface of 117 square feet (11 m2) heat to heat her three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of 5,445 square feet (506 m2). She was fitted with direction finding equipment.
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1941-10-19
1943-03-05
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ran aground & broke in two
sunk by torpedo 5 March 1943
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Approximate position of Empire Towers wreck
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Ship builder
Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland
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Ship identification
*UK official number 161579
*call sign GYFP
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UK official number 161579
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Ship in service
December 1942
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Ship launched
March 1935
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Ship name
SS Empire Tower
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SS Roxburgh
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SS Tower Field
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Roxburgh, Scotland
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Counties Ship Management, London
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Ship out of service
1941-10-19
1943-03-05
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triple expansion steam engine; single screw
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London
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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*tonnage under deck 3,927
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SS Empire Tower was a British ...... h direction finding equipment.
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SS Empire Tower
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