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词条 SS Beatus
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  1. Building

  2. Second World War career

  3. Convoy SC 7 and sinking

  4. References

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SS Beatus was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1925, sailed in a number of transatlantic convoys in 1940 and was sunk by a U-boat that October.

Building

Ropner Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd of Stockton-on-Tees, England built Beatus, completing her in February 1925.{{sfn|Lloyd's Registry 1937}} She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of {{convert|190|sqft|0}} that heated three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of {{convert|7500|sqft|0}}.{{sfn|Lloyd's Registry 1937}} The boilers fed a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine that was rated at 436 NHP and drove a single screw.{{sfn|Lloyd's Registry 1937}} The engine was built by Blair and Company, also of Stockton.{{sfn|Lloyd's Registry 1937}}

Beatus was registered in Cardiff, managed by W.H. Seager & Co Ltd and owned by another of William Seager's companies, Tempus Shipping Co, Ltd.{{sfn|Lloyd's Registry 1937}}

Second World War career

By early 1940 Beatus was sailing in convoys.[5] In February 1940 she joined Convoy SL-20 from Freetown, Sierra Leone to Liverpool with a cargo of wheat.[5] In May and June 1940 she brought a general cargo across the North Atlantic to the UK via Bermuda, where she joined Convoy BHX 46.[6] and Halifax, Nova Scotia, where BHX 46 joined Convoy HX 46.[7] In late July Beatus was carrying a cargo of steel and pit props when she joined another HX convoy, HX 60, from Halifax, NS to Liverpool.[8] Between ocean voyages, Beatus sailed in a number of North Sea coastal convoys.

Convoy SC 7 and sinking

Early in October Beatus left Trois-Rivières, Quebec, carrying a cargo of 1,626 tons of steel, 5,874 tons of timber and a deck cargo of crated aircraft bound for Middlesbrough via the Tyne. Her Master was Wilfred Leslie Brett.[4] She went via Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she joined Convoy SC 7 bound for Liverpool.[9] SC 7 left Sydney on 5 October. At first the convoy had only one escort ship, the {{sclass-|Hastings|sloop}} {{HMS|Scarborough|L25|6}}. A wolfpack of U-boats found the convoy on 16 October and quickly overwhelmed it, sinking many ships over the next few days.

Between 2058 and 2104 hours on 18 October, SC 7 was about {{convert|100|miles}} west by south of Barra Head in the Outer Hebrides when {{GS|U-46|1938|2}}, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Engelbert Endrass, attacked it. Endrass fired four torpedoes: one hit and sank the Swedish freighter {{SS|Convallaria}}; another hit Beatus.[4] Frank Holding, Assistant Steward on Beatus, recalled:

"The next thing I heard was this explosion and a sound like breaking glass from down near the engine room. The ship stood still. When I went to the boat deck one of the lifeboats was already in the water, full of water... We knew we were sinking."[10]
Captain Brett and all 36 crew members survived, were rescued by a convoy escort, the {{sclass-|Flower|corvette}} {{HMS|Bluebell|K80|6}}, and were later landed at Gourock.[4]

References

1. ^{{cite book|url = http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=33b0098.pdf|year = 1933|title = Lloyd's Register, Steamers and Motorships|location = London|publisher = Lloyd's Register|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
2. ^{{cite book|url = http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=34b0101.pdf|year = 1934|title = Lloyd's Register, Steamers and Motorships|location = London|publisher = Lloyd's Register|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
3. ^1 {{cite web|url = http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?12949|title = SS Beatus (+1940)|last = Allen|first = Tony|date = 5 November 2010|work = The Wreck Site|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url = http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/612.html|title = Beatus|last = Helgason|first = Guðmundur|date = 1995–2013|work = Ships hit by U-boats|publisher = Guðmundur Helgason|accessdate = 8 August 2013|ref = harv}}
5. ^1 {{cite web|url = http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/sl2/index.html?sl.php?convoy=20!~slmain|last = Hague|first = Arnold|title = Convoy SL.20|work = SL/MKS Convoy Series|publisher = Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
6. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/bhx/index.html?bhx.php?convoy=46!~bhxmain |last = Hague|first = Arnold|title = Convoy BHX.46|work = BHX Convoy Series|publisher = Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
7. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/hx/index.html?hx.php?convoy=46!~hxmain|last = Hague|first = Arnold|title = Convoy HX.46|work = HX Convoy Series|publisher = Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
8. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/hx/index.html?hx.php?convoy=60!~hxmain|last = Hague|first = Arnold|title = Convoy HX.60|work = HX Convoy Series|publisher = Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
9. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/sc/index.html?sc.php?convoy=7!~scmain|last = Hague|first = Arnold|title = Convoy SC.7|work = SC Convoy Series|publisher = Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb|accessdate = 9 August 2013|ref = harv}}
10. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.war-experience.org/history/keyaspects/atlantic/default.asp#ref31 |last = Tildesley |first = Kate |title = Voices from the Battle of the Atlantic |publisher = Second World War Experience Centre |accessdate = |ref = harv |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717092607/http://www.war-experience.org/history/keyaspects/atlantic/default.asp#ref31 |archivedate = 17 July 2011 |df = dmy-all}}
  • {{cite book

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|accessdate = 9 August 2013
|ref = {{harvid|Lloyd's Register 1937}}
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