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Empire Lough
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Empire Lough | British Government |
Fate
Loaded a cargo of cased petrol & government stores at London & joined convoy ETC-17 which left Southend on 24 June 1944 on a voyage for Gold Beach, Normandy. On the same day the convoy was attacked by German long range shore batteries in the Dover Straits. She was hit & beached east of Folkestone where she was declared a total loss. Master Robert Robinson. Two hands were lost.
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1940 - Launch and Shipyard Movements
