SS Magdapur

SS Magdapur was a cargo ship mined and sunk off Thorpeness, Suffolk, by a Nazi German submarine in the Second World War.

History
Name	SS Magdapur
Owner	Thos & Jno Brocklebank, Liverpool
Builder	Lithgows, Port Glasgow[1]
Yard number	730[2]
Laid down	1920
Launched	17 November 1920[1]
Identification	Code Letters GDXZ [2]
Fate	Mined and sunk 10 September 1939[1]
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Tonnage	9,237 GRT until 1935; 8,641 GRT after 1935[1]
Length	499.6 ft (152.3 m) until 1935;[1] 473 ft (144 m) after 1935[1]
Beam	64 ft (20 m)[1]
Draught	34.2 ft (10.4 m)[2]
Installed power	Two steam turbines double reduction geared to single screw; 1,147 horsepower (855 kW); two double ended & two single ended boilers, 24 corrugated furnaces engine[2]
Propulsion	single propeller[2]
Speed	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)[2]
Capacity	80 crew

The SS Magdapur sailed for the Brocklebank Line.

On 10 September 1939, one week after the declaration of war, she was underway in ballast from Tyne to Southampton, her master was Arthur Dixon.^[1] On that day she struck a mine laid by the German submarine U-13.^[3] She sank at 17:25. Six people died as a result of the attack, but 75 people were rescued from the sea by the Aldeburgh lifeboat Abdy Beauclerk.^[4] Her crew included lascars.^[5]