SS City of Bradford (1903)

History

Name:	1903-1914:SS City of Bradford 1914-1919:SS Donau 1919-1936:SS City of Bradford 1936-1953:SS Hanne
Operator:	1903-1923:Great Central Railway 1923-1935:London and North Eastern Railway 1935-1936:Associated Humber Lines 1936-1942:Near East Shipping Company
Port of registry:
Builder:	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched:	1903
Out of service:	22 February 1942
Fate:	Sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage:	1,341 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	256.5 feet (78.2 m)
Beam:	34.5 feet (10.5 m)
Depth:	15.7 feet (4.8 m)

SS City of Bradford was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1912.^[1]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 23 July 1903^[2] by Mrs Robinson, the wife of the engineer of the Great Central Railway. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being City of Leeds.

In 1914, on passage to Hamburg and being unaware of the outbreak of war, she was intercepted off Heligoland and taken as a prize. Renamed Donau, she was recovered by British forces in January 1919 and returned to Grimsby.

In 1923, she passed into the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway and, in 1935, to the Associated Humber Lines. She was surplus to requirements and sold in 1936 to the Near East Shipping Company and renamed Hanne.

She was bombed on 22 February 1942 by Luftwaffe aircraft and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean (31°57′N 25°26′E / 31.950°N 25.433°E / 31.950; 25.433), with the loss of four of her 25 crew.^[3]

References

↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
↑ "Earle's Co. and the "City of Bradford"". Hull Daily Mail. England. 24 July 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
↑ "Hanne sunk".

Ships operated by the London and North Eastern Railway.

Ex GCR ships.	Accrington City of Bradford City of Leeds Dewsbury Lutterworth Macclesfield Nottingham Staveley

Ex GER ships.	Amsterdam Antwerp Archangel Bruges Cromer Felixstowe Malines Roulers St Denis

Ships built for, or acquired by, the LNER	Amsterdam Arnhem Brightlingsea Prague Suffolk Ferry Train Ferry No. 1 (renamed Essex Ferry in 1946) Train Ferry No. 2 Train Ferry No. 3 Vienna

Humber Ferries	Grimsby Cleethorpes Brocklesby Killingholme Tattershall Castle Wingfield Castle Lincoln Castle

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in February 1942

Shipwrecks	2 Feb: U-581, W. L. Steed 3 Feb: Talthybius 5 Feb: HMS Arbutus, Empress of Asia 6 Feb: U-82 9 Feb: USS Lafayette, Natsushio 11 Feb: USS Shark, HMCS Spikenard 12 Feb: HMS Maori 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van Ghent 17 Feb: USS Detector, Empire Comet, USS Paramount, HNLMS Van Nes 18 Feb: HNLMS K VII, USS Pollux, HNLMS Soerabaja, Surcouf, USS Truxtun 19 Feb: British Consul, British Motorist, Don Isidro, Kelat, Mauna Loa, HMAS Mavie, USAT Meigs, Neptuna, USS Peary, HNLMS Piet Hein, Portmar, Zealandia 21 Feb: Kurtuluş 22 Feb: Hanne, Sama 23 Feb: HMS P38 24 Feb: Empire Celt, Struma (disaster) 27 Feb: HNLMS De Ruyter, HMS Electra, USS Langley, HMS Jupiter, HNLMS Java, HNLMS Kortenaer, R.P. Resor 28 Feb: USS Jacob Jones Unknown date: I-23

Other incidents	4 Feb: USS Marblehead 18 Feb: USS Wilkes

1941 1942 1943 January 1942 March 1942

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