Empire Heritage (SS)

Name: Empire Heritage (SS)
Address: IE

Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1944

The Empire Heritage was built by Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne for the Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Co. of Capetown, South Africa. It originally operated as a whaler called the Tafelberg and weighed 13,640 tons. After hitting a mine and running ashore in the Bristol Channel in 1941, it was declared a total loss and rebuilt as a tanker for the Ministry of War Transport. The newly renamed Empire Heritage weighed 15,702 tons and was capable of 11 knots. It was re-launched in Fe

Type:: Steamship
Period:: 1944
Coordinates:: 55.54°N, 7.72°W

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