Blue Star Line Blue Star's S.S. "Brodness"  
       
  Built: R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle  
  ON: 104857  
Dimensions: 420.0 x 54.0 x 28.7 feet
  Tonnage: Gross : 5736 Net : 3719  
  Propulsion: Triple Expansion Steam Engine  
  Type: Refrigerated Cargo Liner  
  Launched: 1/9/1894  as Banffshire for Elderslie S.S. Co. Ltd. (Turnbull, Martin & Co. managers) Glasgow  
  Completed: 11/1894  
  Sold: 1910 to Scottish Shire Line Ltd., same managers  
  Purchased: 7/06/1915 by Brodness S.S. Co. Ltd., (Blue Star Line managers) and renamed Brodness  
  Torpedoed: 31/03/1917 & sunk 5 W.N.W. of Port Anzio, Italy whilst on a voyage from Genoa, Italy to Port Said, Egypt in ballast by German Submarine UC 38  
     
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  S.S. Banffshire  
     
 

One of several vessels obtained during WW I from Scottish Shire Line to increase the meat carrying capacity of the company. She was torpedoed off Anzio, Italy and has recently been discovered almost intact on the bottom.

  
 
   
Gun Mounting   Foremast   Light boxes
 
     
 
       
Engine room   Bow   Prow with anchor   Funnel base    
 
     
  Photographs courtesy of two Italian websites: http://www.torvaianica.it/relitti.asp  
     
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  Updated: 18-02-2008