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					Year | 
				
					Name | 
				
					Owner | 
			
			
							|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | City of Bath | Ellerman Lines Ltd. | 
The steamship City of Bath was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-508 (Georg Staats), off Venezuela, on December 2nd, 1942. The ship was on a voyage from Mombasa to the UK, with a cargo of copper, magnesite, chrome ore and general cargo. Master Thomas Victor Berkett.
City of Bath - Lives lost 1942Master: 1942 Thomas Victor Berkett.
On a voyage from Mombasa for Pernambuco, Trinidad & the UK with a general cargo including manganese, ore-copper ingots & mail & a total complement of 83 City of Bath was torpedoed by German submarine (U-508 Georg Staats) & sank NW of Georgetown-British Guiana on 1 December 1942. 28 survivors landed at Trinidad & 52 were picked up by the City of Dunkirk. Sources state 3 lives lost but CWGC lists 4 names.
Lives lost December 1942: Abu Rahman Qazi Ahmad, seaman, 34, India; Arfan Ullah, fireman, 24, India; Ayaz Ullah, fireman/trimmer, India; Finnie, George William Fraser, 4th engineer, 23, Aberdeen.
Survivors December 1942: Berkett, Thomas Victor, master; Faulds, Robert.
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