Name SS Tregenna Yard number 915 Tonnage 5,242 GT Length 122 m | Owner Edward Hain & Son Type Steamship Launched 1 May 1919 Builder Hartlepool | |
Fate Sunk by U-65 on 9 September 1940 | ||
The SS Tregenna was a steamship built by Wm. Gray and Company Ltd. for Edward Hain & Son of St Ives, England. Originally named the War Bulldog, she was renamed before completion in 1919.
In August 1921, Tregenna reported sighting the wreckage of a Farman Goliath aircraft of SNETA that had ditched in the English Channel.
On 7 August 1930, Tregenna ran aground at Alligator Pond, Jamaica. She was refloated on 10 August 1930 and returned to service.
On 17 September 1940, Tregenna was sunk by the German submarine U-65 while travelling in convoy 78 mi (68 nmi; 126 km) north-west of Rockall during World War II. Thirty-three of the 37 crew aboard were killed, including the Master, William Thomas Care. She was en route from Halifax to Newport, Wales, carrying 8,000 short tons (7,300 t) of steel. The four survivors were rescued by the ship travelling astern of her in the convoy.