Silver Line (shipping company)

The Silverplane, a sleek twin funnel vessel of 7,226 gross tons built in 1948, was sold to the Cunard Line in 1951 and renamed Alsatia II, and so was her sister ship Silverbriar, to become Andria I.

Their forward funnels were false, containing the chart room and the captain's cabin, looked like miniature Queen Elizabeths, and carried just 12 passengers, the maximum allowed without a regulation onboard doctor.

[5] An associated company, Joseph L. Thompson & Sons of Sunderland, was involved in the design of the first Liberty ships that saw service in World War II and beyond.

During the 1970s, Silver Line had a fleet of chemical tankers carrying many types of (often hazardous) cargoes; from sulphuric acid to tetraethyllead.

[9] She was en route from New York - Sydney - Liverpool in Convoy SC 48 carrying 7,300 tons general cargo, including steel when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-553 SE of Cape Farewell.

[13] On 26 Feb 1944, U-66 attacked the convoy STL 12 about 130 nautical miles (240 km) W of Takoradi and reported one ship sunk and another damaged.

47 crew members, 9 gunners and 1 passenger were picked up by HMS Kildwick (Z 06) (Lt P. Pannell) and landed at Takoradi on 27 February.

[16] On 30 October 1942, when en route from Lagos - Freetown – Liverpool, in Convoy SL-125, and carrying a general cargo of 9,000 tons, she was torpedoed by German submarine U-409 and sunk NNW of Madeira.

The master, 49 crew members, 7 gunners and 4 passengers were picked up by the British auxiliary patrol vessel HMNZS Kelantan (F 166) (Lt A.E.

It is also untrue that the Master (James Smith), 49 crew members and 3 gunners made landfall at San Antonio, Cape Verde Islands.

The newly built Silverbriar , February 1948
Model of TSMV Silverpalm (1929, 6,373 GT ), sister ship to the Silverwalnut , on display at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum , California. Model, used for movie backgrounds, was donated by the estate of Marantz Aviation , model suppliers to the movie industry. Silverpalm was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U-371 [ 3 ] in 1941 on a voyage from Calcutta to Glasgow with the loss of all hands. [ 4 ]