Name SS Magdapur Laid down 1920 Construction started 1920 Draft 10 m | Yard number 730 Identification Code Letters GDXZ Launched 17 November 1920 | |
Fate Mined and sunk 10 September 1939 | ||
SS Magdapur was a cargo ship mined and sunk off Thorpeness, Suffolk, by a Nazi German submarine in the Second World War.
The SS Magdapur sailed for the Brocklebank Line.
On 10 September 1939, 1 week after the declaration of war, she was underway in ballast from Tyne to Southampton, her master was Arthur Dixon. On that day she struck by a mine laid by the German submarine U-13. She sank at 17:25. Six people died as a result of the attack, but 75 people were rescued from the sea by the Aldeburgh Lifeboat. Her crew included lascars.
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