MV Breconshire
![]() Breconshire in Grand Harbour, Malta | |
History | |
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Name: | Breconshire |
Owner: | Glen Line |
Port of registry: | Liverpool, England |
Builder: | Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering, Hong Kong |
Launched: | 1939 |
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Fate: | Sunk by Axis bombers, 27 March 1942 |
Status: | Wreck salvaged and scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Cargo liner |
Tonnage: | |
Length: | 483 ft (147.22 m) |
Beam: | 66 ft 4 in (20.22 m) |
Draught: | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
Depth: | 31 ft 2 in (9.50 m) |
Decks: | 2 |
Installed power: | 2 × diesel engines (2,469 nhp) |
Propulsion: | 2 × screws |
Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
MV Breconshire was a 9,776-gross register ton (GRT) cargo liner built in the late 1930s for the Glen Line. She was taken over by the Royal Navy during World War II as a supply ship and modified to carry fuel oil. The ship participated in many Malta convoys and was sunk by Axis bombers on 27 March 1942.
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