Tag Archives: Ellerman Line

No.356 City of Nagpur launched in 1922

10,138grt for Ellerman Lines from Workman Clark, Belfast Torpedoed by U75 off Fastnet in the Atlantic 1941 City of Nagpur, Vandyck or Voltaire) and Canadian Pacific’s unmistakable Empress of Britain,

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No.324 City of Paris launched in 1921

10,902grt for Ellerman Lines from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Scrapped in Newport 1956 Image attribution: John Crossland

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No.862 City of Durban launched in 1953

13,343grt for Ellerman Lines from Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Dolphin 1971 MA Karageorgis Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1974 Mediterranean Dolphin 1971 MA KarageorgisScrapped in Kaohsiung 1974, far left of the photoImage from: http://global-mariner.com/index114WhenShipsDie.html

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No.857 City of York launched in 1953

13,345grt for Ellerman Lines by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Sky 1971 MA Karageorgis Siterranean Sky 1987 Argentina Mediterranean Sky 1991 MA Karageorgis Sank Elevsis 2003 Image attribution: Fotoflite, Neven Jerković & Henry Brayshaw

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No.587 City of Benares launched in 1936

11,081get for Ellerman Line by Barclay Curle, Glasgow Torpedoed by U48 N Atlantic 1940 A most tragic event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Benares 1st image from Shipping Magazine

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