SS Chulmleigh
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Chulmleigh |
| Owner |
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| Builder | William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Southwick |
| Yard number | 238 |
| Launched | 8 December 1937 |
| Completed | May 1938 |
| Fate | Wrecked on 5 November 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage |
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| Length | 447.2 ft (136.3 m) |
| Beam | 56.2 ft (17.1 m) |
| Draught | 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m) |
| Installed power | 502 nhp |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
SS Chulmleigh was a British merchant ship of the mid-20th century. She was in service during the first years of the Second World War and was lost in November 1942 on Operation FB, a series of individual sailings from Iceland to northern Russia. The ship ran aground on Sørkapp at the south end of Svalbard. The survivors of the wreck underwent a six-week ordeal that only the master and eight crewmen survived to be rescued.