VINTAGE SS YORKSHIRE (1920) BIBBY LINE, SOUVENIR CIGARETTE CASE, Sunk WW2 - 1939

Dated around 1920 - 35

Engine turned silver plate

Enamelled badge to the face

8.5cm x 6.5cm approx

Good used condition for age, with some superficial wear and discolouration. 

SS YORKSHIRE was built in 1920 for the Bibby Line, Liverpool...maiden voyage Liverpool-Rangoon service...1925 collided in the Elbe with French steamer Groix which had to be beached...1939 she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-47 northwest of Cape Finisterre, 58 dead.

YORKSHIRE (Captain V.C.P. Smalley). Bound for Liverpool, sailed from Rangoon on 13 September, 1939. Joined unescorted Convoy HG.3 which left Gibraltar on 12 October. Torpedoed twice and sunk by U.37 (KrvKpt. Werner Hartmann) at 4.30pm on the 17th, in position 44º52´N 14º31´W. Fifty-eight died. Two hundred and twenty-three picked up by the Independence Hall (US) and landed at Bordeaux on the 20th. For details of other ships sunk in Convoy HG.3, see under City of Mandalay, ELLERMAN GROUP and Clan Chisholm, CLAN LINE.

Nautical box 30