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entered service she suffered a crack in her shelter deck. This was welded up, but such cracks recurred, and the most recent was "shortly before the ship sailed on her last voyage". The Court opined that the recurrent cracks, all in a similar place, suggested a structural weakness.
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The Board of Trade proposed a range theories for the loss of the ship. A Court of
Inquiry held in October 1938 dismissed all but one of them as "unlikely" or "unlikely in the extreme".
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or Force 9 severe gale, causing very heavy seas and a heavy swell. The Board of Trade estimated that on the night of 14 March the trough of the storm would have passed nearer
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The Court also found that there was evidence that in previous encounters with heavy weather while in ballast the ship had shown visible buckling amidships.
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Nothing more was ever heard from her, nor any wreckage found. Other ships in the area at the time reported a
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built for the
Nitrate Producers' Steam Ship Co, Ltd. She was completed in May 1927. She had a four-cylinder
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than any of the other ships in the area, and that she would have encountered the worst of the weather.
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569:
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140:
519:
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36:
719:
462:
508:
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146:
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238:
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S.S. "Anglo
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knots (19.4 km/h). By 1930 she was equipped with wireless
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and between 1800 and 1830 hrs sent a wireless message "Passed
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that was built in 1927 and disappeared without trace in the
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The Court concluded that the ship probably broke her back.
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was one of a series of similar-sized cargo ships that
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453:s main boilers were internally inspected at
540:The Court noted that about a year after
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279:25 ft 0 in (7.62 m)
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761:Steamships of the United Kingdom
756:Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
473:wireless. From 4 to 8 March she
457:. On 3 and 4 March 1938 she was
414:quadruple-expansion steam engine
307:quadruple-expansion steam engine
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57:Nitrate Producers Steam Ship Co.
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420:and gave her a speed of about
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746:Ships built on the River Wear
661:. 1938 – via WreckSite.
503:. On 14 March she passed the
499:. She was to load timber in
410:Short Brothers of Sunderland
263:426.0 ft (129.8 m)
777:
736:Maritime incidents in 1938
271:58.0 ft (17.7 m)
751:Ships lost with all hands
287:26.1 ft (8.0 m)
229:
22:
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612:. Vol. II. London:
603:"Ships and Motorships".
577:. Vol. II. London:
568:"Ships and Motorships".
65:Lawther, Latta & Co.
230:General characteristics
480:After noon on 8 March
469:inspectors tested her
329:knots (19.4 km/h)
225:Disappeared March 1938
511:this afternoon. Nine
442:Final voyage and loss
711:. pp. 228, 229.
689:, pp. 228, 229.
703:Wilson, RM (1956).
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344:processing systems
731:March 1938 events
446:In February 1938
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542:Anglo-Australian
533:Court of inquiry
527:Anglo-Australian
490:British Columbia
482:Anglo-Australian
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342:Sensors and
147:Code letters
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687:Wilson 1956
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371:Anglo-Saxon
248:5,456
94:Yard number
726:1927 ships
720:Categories
707:. London:
657:. London:
620:11 October
585:11 October
555:References
488:bound for
459:dry-docked
455:Birkenhead
391:cargo ship
303:Propulsion
239:Cargo ship
129:March 1938
121:4 May 1927
501:Vancouver
347:wireless
183:Call sign
118:Completed
102:Laid down
484:left in
475:bunkered
401:Building
110:Launched
62:Operator
520:Force 8
486:ballast
471:Marconi
463:Cardiff
429:⁄
324:⁄
276:Draught
245:Tonnage
88:Pallion
80:Builder
23:History
616:. 1930
581:. 1937
505:Azores
383:was a
260:Length
143:149817
74:London
610:(PDF)
575:(PDF)
513:knots
509:Fayal
451:'
388:steam
355:Notes
313:Speed
284:Depth
54:Owner
659:HMSO
622:2020
587:2020
523:gale
495:the
334:Crew
295:453
268:Beam
235:Type
222:Fate
44:Name
493:via
461:in
418:NHP
297:nhp
254:NRT
250:GRT
139:UK
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