Cargo built 1919 Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, Quincy, Mass for Luckenbach SS Co. New York. 6013Gt. 3787nt. D496x69x37ft. Four steam turbines, SR geared to two screw shafts. Torpedoed and sunk 10 March 1943.
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Andrea F Luckenbach
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Andrea F Luckenbach
Cargo built 1919 Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, Quincy, Mass for Luckenbach SS Co. New York. 6013Gt. 3787nt. D496x69x37ft. Four steam turbines, SR geared to two screw shafts. Torpedoed and sunk 10 March 1943.
Canal Zone SG152. USA SG853. SSS Ency
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Re: Andrea F Luckenbach
The German Navicula gives her on the Panama Canal Zone as ANDREA F. LUCKNER of the Luckenbach Line, with the same details as the ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH
I could not find any ship under the name ANDREA F. LUCKNER who ever had sailed for the Luckenbach Line.
The ship is also given under that name on the topic Panama Canal stamps of Mr. Bjoern Moritz.,
http://www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/panama.htm
Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 298 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Mass. For the Luckenbach Steamship Co. Inc., New York.
She was ordered by Luckenbach, but she was launched under the name HIGHAM for the U.S. Shipping Board.
03 May 1919 launched as HIGHAM.
Tonnage 10.653 gross, 8.063 net, 14.251 dwt. When built, dim. 496 x 68.2 x 37.2 ft., draught 23.3ft.
Powered by four steam turbines, geared to two shafts, twin screws, speed 15 knots.
June 1919 delivered under the name ANDREA F LUCKENBACH.
The USA stamp shows the vessel when she passed the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal on 03 May 1922.
The Panama Canal stamp is designed after a photo taken on 15 June 1921. The ship in the background is the STEEL WORKER.
07 September 1934 she rescued crew and passengers from the USA passenger vessel MORRO CASTLE which was on fire, she was the first largest vessel which arrived on the scene and at around 04.00 she rescued the first people.
On a voyage from Charleston and New York to Cardiff in the U.K was she torpedoed by the German submarine U-221 in position 51 20N 29 29W on 10 March 1943, loaded with 11.600 tons general cargo and explosives, she sank.
Of the crew of 84 men, 21 men were lost.
When she was lost her tonnage is given as 6.565 gross, 4.052 net.
The following is copied from http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/2756.html
At 21.26 hours on 10 March 1943, the lead ship of the ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH’s column in the HX-228 (convoy), the (Elders & Fyffe’s Ltd) TUCURINCA was torpedoed and sunk by U-221.
Five minutes later, immediately after lookouts (on board the ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH) spotted the periscope two FAT torpedoes from the same U-boat hit the ship.
The first struck on the port side about 90 feet forward of the sternpost and caused the after magazine to explode. The after end of the ship was blown off, destroying the after gun platform and killing the ten armed guards on station.
The second torpedo hits just forward of the first and the majority of the nine officers, 46 men, 28 armed guards (the ship was armed with 1 – 4 inch. 1 - 2 inch and 8 - 20mm guns) and one passenger (US Army officer) immediately abandoned ship in two lifeboats. Others jumped overboard and swam to the boats, the rafts and wreckage.
The Armed guard officer gave his life jacket to a seaman who did not have one, but the officer could not swim and was unable to reach a lifeboat after he jumped overboard and drowned.
The ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH (Master Rolf Neslund) sank within seven minutes.
In just over an hour the British Fleet Oiler ORANGELEAF rescued 17 armed guards, nine officers, 37 men and the passenger and landed them at Clyde, Scotland.
Sources: Register of Merchant ships completed in 1919. The World’s Merchant Fleets by Roger Jordan.
CD_ROM ships on stamps.
I could not find any ship under the name ANDREA F. LUCKNER who ever had sailed for the Luckenbach Line.
The ship is also given under that name on the topic Panama Canal stamps of Mr. Bjoern Moritz.,
http://www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/panama.htm
Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 298 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Mass. For the Luckenbach Steamship Co. Inc., New York.
She was ordered by Luckenbach, but she was launched under the name HIGHAM for the U.S. Shipping Board.
03 May 1919 launched as HIGHAM.
Tonnage 10.653 gross, 8.063 net, 14.251 dwt. When built, dim. 496 x 68.2 x 37.2 ft., draught 23.3ft.
Powered by four steam turbines, geared to two shafts, twin screws, speed 15 knots.
June 1919 delivered under the name ANDREA F LUCKENBACH.
The USA stamp shows the vessel when she passed the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal on 03 May 1922.
The Panama Canal stamp is designed after a photo taken on 15 June 1921. The ship in the background is the STEEL WORKER.
07 September 1934 she rescued crew and passengers from the USA passenger vessel MORRO CASTLE which was on fire, she was the first largest vessel which arrived on the scene and at around 04.00 she rescued the first people.
On a voyage from Charleston and New York to Cardiff in the U.K was she torpedoed by the German submarine U-221 in position 51 20N 29 29W on 10 March 1943, loaded with 11.600 tons general cargo and explosives, she sank.
Of the crew of 84 men, 21 men were lost.
When she was lost her tonnage is given as 6.565 gross, 4.052 net.
The following is copied from http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/2756.html
At 21.26 hours on 10 March 1943, the lead ship of the ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH’s column in the HX-228 (convoy), the (Elders & Fyffe’s Ltd) TUCURINCA was torpedoed and sunk by U-221.
Five minutes later, immediately after lookouts (on board the ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH) spotted the periscope two FAT torpedoes from the same U-boat hit the ship.
The first struck on the port side about 90 feet forward of the sternpost and caused the after magazine to explode. The after end of the ship was blown off, destroying the after gun platform and killing the ten armed guards on station.
The second torpedo hits just forward of the first and the majority of the nine officers, 46 men, 28 armed guards (the ship was armed with 1 – 4 inch. 1 - 2 inch and 8 - 20mm guns) and one passenger (US Army officer) immediately abandoned ship in two lifeboats. Others jumped overboard and swam to the boats, the rafts and wreckage.
The Armed guard officer gave his life jacket to a seaman who did not have one, but the officer could not swim and was unable to reach a lifeboat after he jumped overboard and drowned.
The ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH (Master Rolf Neslund) sank within seven minutes.
In just over an hour the British Fleet Oiler ORANGELEAF rescued 17 armed guards, nine officers, 37 men and the passenger and landed them at Clyde, Scotland.
Sources: Register of Merchant ships completed in 1919. The World’s Merchant Fleets by Roger Jordan.
CD_ROM ships on stamps.
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