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Description: | Scale: 1:96. A fine builder’s model of the ‘Arabistan’ (1927). The ship was built for F. C. Strick & Company Ltd. by W. Gray of West Hartlepool, and the model shows her depicted in Strick Line’s distinctive colours. Within two years she had a change of name, to ‘Bandar Sharpour’. On 21 January 1941 she collided with the Norwegian steamer ‘Korsfjord’, while in a convoy, 20 miles off the Butt of Lewis, causing the loss of that vessel.
Later in the War ‘Bandar Sharpour’ left Abadan in a convoy bound for the UK with 6768 tons of general cargo including oil seeds, manganese ore, rubber and copra. Just before midnight on 30 April 1943 the German submarine ‘U-515’ fired two stern torpedoes at the convoy which was then about 130 miles southwest of Freetown and observed hits after 58 and 59 seconds. One ship was seen sinking quickly while another had broken in two. The U-boat then fired another torpedo which struck a freighter amidships. A fourth torpedo, fired a minute later, struck another freighter, causing an explosion. A fifth torpedo hit a ship which immediately sank and a sixth hit a freighter but its sinking could not be observed.
By the end of the attack four ships in the convoy had been sunk including the ‘Bandar Sharpour’. Only one passenger was lost, the remainder of the crew, gunners and passengers were picked up by a trawler and taken to Freetown the following day.
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A fine builder’s model of the Arabistan (1927). The ship was built for F. C. Strick & Company Ltd. by William Gray & Co Ltd of West Hartlepool, and the model shows her depicted in Strick Line’s distinctive colours. Within two years she had a change of name, to Bandar Sharpour. On 21 January 1941 she collided with the Norwegian steamer Korsfjord, while in a convoy, 20 miles off the Butt of Lewis, causing the loss of that vessel.
Later in the War Bandar Sharpour left Abadan in a convoy bound for the UK with 6768 tons of general cargo including oil seeds, manganese ore, rubber and copra. Just before midnight on 30 April 1943 the German submarine U-515 fired two stern torpedoes at the convoy which was then about 130 miles southwest of Freetown and observed hits after 58 and 59 seconds. One ship was seen sinking quickly while another had broken in two. The U-boat then fired another torpedo which struck a freighter amidships. A fourth torpedo, fired a minute later, struck another freighter, causing an explosion. A fifth torpedo hit a ship which immediately sank and a sixth hit a freighter but its sinking could not be observed.
By the end of the attack four ships in the convoy had been sunk including the Bandar Sharpour. Only one passenger was lost, the remainder of the crew, gunners and passengers were picked up by a trawler and taken to Freetown the following day. | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Subjects: | Arabistan 1927 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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