The Sinking of SS Chaucer - Capt C Bradley OBE

Stopped and Sunk by German Raider Orion - 1941

   Crew List

The German Raider Orion

Career Summary

1940 Acquired with Shakespear Shipping Co

1941 Shelled and sunk by Orion in Atlantic

Vessel

Built

Tonnage

Official No

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

Chaucer

1929

5792

161227

R Duncan

Port Glasgow

David Rowan

Glasgow

Triple Expansion Steam

557 NHP

2600 IHP

1

Master

Date

Left

Destination

C Bradley

6/1941

Middlesborough

Buenos Aires

Sunk

Chaucer

GSZC

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