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  • SS Empire Brigade
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  • SS Empire Brigade was a cargo ship that was built in 1912 as SS Hannington Court. She served through the First World War and was sold in 1936 to Achille Lauro, who renamed her Elios. In 1940 when Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom she was interned by the UK as a war prize and taken over by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which renamed her Empire Brigade. Four months later she was torpedoed and sunk by .
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Caption
  • Approximate position of Empire Brigades wreck
Width
  • 304
long
  • -10.717000
relief
  • yes
Ship caption
  • As the Hannington Court, prior to 1936
Ship image
  • 300
module
  • --10-19
LAT
  • 57.200000
abstract
  • SS Empire Brigade was a cargo ship that was built in 1912 as SS Hannington Court. She served through the First World War and was sold in 1936 to Achille Lauro, who renamed her Elios. In 1940 when Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom she was interned by the UK as a war prize and taken over by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which renamed her Empire Brigade. Four months later she was torpedoed and sunk by .