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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 , 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 , , and , which were also managed by CSM but owned by other R&K companies. ==Sinking== The Italian navy submarine ''Leonardo da Vinci'' torpedoed the ''Lulworth Hill'' in the South Atlantic on 19 March 1943. 14 survivors made it onto a life raft. One source, seemingly quoting one of only three men to survive the sinking and subsequent ordeal on the life raft, states that the Germans surfaced and machine gunned the survivors; however, this is unlikely as the submarine was not German and the only other survivor of the life raft, in his book of the events, made no such accusation.〔 Curiously, despite the book being written 17 years after the events, Cooke explicitly writes that the submarine was a U-boat and that the captain and crew were Germans. Cooke claims to have climbed onto the submarine's decks along with many other survivors and talked to the captain. He states that after taking only one man, Hull, on board as a prisoner, the submarine then dived, washing all those clinging to its decks overboard and killing one survivor with the submarine's propellor. Cooke accuses the "German" captain of then deliberately ramming a life boat containing other survivors, but not of machine gunning them.〕 The ''Leonardo da Vinci'' captured and took on board one survivor of the sinking, James Leslie Hull. After 29 days the UK authorities assumed that the ''Lulworth Hill'' had been lost with all hands and duly informed their families. On 7 May the Royal Navy R-class destroyer picked up one of the ''Lulworth Hills liferafts. Of the 14 men that had survived the sinking, after 50 days adrift only two, Seaman Shipwright (''i.e.'' carpenter) Kenneth Cooke and Able Seaman Colin Armitage, remained alive. On 7 December 1943 both men were awarded the George Medal and on 7 November 1944 the Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea. In 1985 a radio interview was broadcast in which Cooke described their ordeal and survival.〔 On 23 May 1943 ''Leonardo da Vinci'' was in the North Atlantic returning from patrol west of Vigo, Spain when the Royal Navy destroyer depth charged and sank her. There were no survivors. James Hull, the prisoner from ''Lulworth Hill'', had previously been transferred to the Italian submarine ''Finzi''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Lulworth Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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