Brookwood (1929)

Builder:
William Gray & Co. Ltd.
West Hartlepool, England
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1929
Launched:
April 11, 1929
Type:
Freighter
Completed:
May 1929
Fate:
Sunk Aug. 23, 1940 (torpedo & gunfire) by U-37 (Kapitänleutnant Victor Oehrn)

Location: North Atlantic, 690 miles south southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.
(54.40N-27.57W)

1 man killed (4th Engineer Officer Matthew Beresford Merrikin)
36 survivors picked up by SS Clan Macbean and landed at Freetown, Sierra Leone.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance (as built)
Length:
408'
Engines:
1 triple expansion (b), 1 exhaust turbine
Beam:
53'
Boilers:
2 single ended, 1 auxillary single ended
Draft:
26' (depth)
Shafts:
1
Gross Tons:
5,082 (a)
HP:
474 NHP (c)
DWT:
N/A
Speed:
10 knots
   
Notes
(a):
1933 registered at 5,103 tons, 1935 registered at 5,100 tons.
(b):
By Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool, England.
(c):
1933 registered as 507 NHP.


Owner
As built:
Joseph Constantine Steamship Lines Ltd.
Middlesborough, England


Masters
From
To
Name
N/A
Aug. 23, 1940
Frank H. Chilton


Ship's History (information not available)



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