SS Accrington

[K.S.H]

Originally Posted by patroglov

How can I get an enlargement of this thumbnail? I am researching the Accrington story

It's an image, just click on it, or THIS IS THE LINK to it

[LYNX1]

Just found this thread.............very informative, must admit I always wondered where they got the name Aragos st, now I know

[DaveinGermany]

Just browsing through & found this thread, thoroughly enjoyed it. The SS Accrington also picked up 3 Aircrew whose aircraft had been downed after leaving HMS Campania on the Atlantic/Arctic convoys, in 1944.

[Campania813]

SS ACRINGTON
Sutherland, FM PO, Tilley, KH Sub Lt, and Jones, JH PO, 813 sqdn, HMS Campania, 8.6.1944, hit rounddown landing, into sea, picked up unhurt by SS Accrington.

My father was Jones, JH, PO, 813 sqdn, rear gunner radio operator in a Stringbag from HMS Campania. I know very little about his service as he rarely mentioned it. I still have his "Goldfish" award for surviving a dip in the drink mentioned above.

[Sverrir Konradsson]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Well, after all this time I finally picked up a report on the trial after the Captain & 1st Mates murder.....here's the link. There is also a secondary link to a passengers letter, well worth reading. Sounds very much like a hell hole to me. Just like Accy town centre every saturday night.

The murder of the Captain and chief officer of the ACCRINGTON

I don't know whether this thread is still alive but people interested in the SS Accrington, built in around 1855, might find it interested that a young Icelandic seaman, Sveinbjörn Egilson, signed as an AB on the Accrington in Liverpool in 1885. The Accrington sailed to Calcutta in ballast and Egilson describes the voyage in detail in a book he later wrote in Icelandic on his voyages, mainly on British sailing ships. Egilson's accounts on his voyages are quite remarkable and well written since he was well educated. Egilson was a son of an Icelandic merchant and his grandfather was the Headmaster of the Bessastadir Grammar School. Egilson had graduated from that school and had completed the first year of two in the Clergical School of Reykjavík, Iceland when he sailed to Liverpool to join the Accrington and then other British clippers. Unfortunately, his book has not been translated into English. These accounts would presumably be considered an important part of British merchant marine history.

[Pudwoppa]

For those interested in the SS Accrington, I found these recently:

GCR Steamers Luxury Cabin c1914
GCR Steamers Dining Saloon c1914