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History
NameSS Chulmleigh
Owner
  • Dulverton Steam Ship Company Ltd. - W. J. Tatem Ltd., London (1938–1940)
  • Atlantic Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd (1940–1942)
BuilderWilliam Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Southwick
Yard number238
Launched8 December 1937
CompletedMay 1938
FateWrecked on 5 November 1942
General characteristics
Tonnage
  • 5,445 gross register tons (GRT)
  • 3,202 net register tons (NRT)
Length447.2 ft (136.3 m)
Beam56.2 ft (17.1 m)
Draught26.8 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power502 nhp
Propulsion
  • 1 – 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engine (24, 40, 69 × 48in)
  • 1 screw

SS Chulmleigh was a British merchant ship of the mid-20th century. She was in service during the first years of the Second World War and was lost in November 1942 on Operation FB, a series of individual sailings from Iceland to northern Russia. The ship ran aground on Sørkapp at the south end of Svalbard. The survivors underwent a 6-week ordeal before being rescued; only the master and eight crewmen survived.

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