John84 Posted 9 December , 2006 Share Posted 9 December , 2006 Do ant 'Pals' know anything about the ship SS Patella during 1914-1918....I have tried Google etc and can find nothing on her. Thanks John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 9 December , 2006 Share Posted 9 December , 2006 Shes in thsi list of ships built on the Tyne but nothing for WW1 http://www.afundit.co.uk/Tyneships1.htm Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Lowrey Posted 9 December , 2006 Share Posted 9 December , 2006 Patella was a 5,617 grt tanker of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., London, built in 1909 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle. She was wrecked 17 Aug 1921, 1 mile north of Cabo Razo, Portugal, on a voage from Port Arthur to Lisbon with a cargo of kerosene. Official number: 125781. Best wishes, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John84 Posted 9 December , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 December , 2006 Mick, Michael Thanks very much for the info, very much appreciated....one of my local lads was serving onboard her as a 4th engineer in 1918. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwsmith Posted 9 December , 2006 Share Posted 9 December , 2006 SS 'kneecap'. Strange name for a ship. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 9 December , 2006 Share Posted 9 December , 2006 SS 'kneecap'. Strange name for a ship. That's what I thought, but there's a file at TNA on an incident in 1921 involving SS Patella and SS Benalla in 1921 (possibly the cause of her loss, as described by Michael L), and I suspect that the name may owe more to Arabic, or one of the Indian languages, than to Latin. Anyway, it was popular enough to be used again, because crew members of another SS Patella appear in lists of prisoners of war of the Japanese in WW2. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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