SS Lulworth Hill

History
United Kingdom
NameSS Lulworth Hill
OwnerDorset Steamship Co Ltd
OperatorCounties Ship Management Co Ltd, London
BuilderWilliam Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow
Yard number440
Launched24 June 1940
Completed1940
Out of service19 March 1943
Identification
FateSunk by torpedo
General characteristics
TypeCargo ship
Tonnage
  • 7,628 GRT;
  • tonnage under deck 7,217;
  • 5,595 NRT
Length421.1 ft (128.4 m)
Beam60.4 ft (18.4 m)
Draught35.8 ft (10.9 m)
Installed power520 NHP; 2,150 ihp
Propulsion3 cylinder triple-expansion steam engine
Speed11 knots (20 km/h)
Crew39
Notessister ships: SS Kingston Hill, SS Marietta E, SS Michael E, SS Primrose Hill

SS Lulworth Hill was a British cargo ship completed by William Hamilton & Co in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in 1940. Lulworth Hill had a single 520 NHP triple-expansion steam engine driving a single screw. She had eight corrugated furnaces heating two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 7,643 square feet (710 m2), plus one auxiliary boiler.

She was owned by Dorset Steamships Co Ltd and managed by Counties Ship Management Co Ltd of London (CSM), both of which were offshoots of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company. She was a sister ship of SS Kingston Hill, SS Marietta E, SS Michael E and SS Primrose Hill, which were also managed by CSM but owned by other R&K companies.

Approximate position of the sinking of Lulworth Hill in the South Atlantic.