About: SS Broompark (1939)

An Entity of Type: Cargo ship, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

SS Broompark was a British cargo ship which was torpedoed by a U-boat on 25 July 1942 and sank three days later. Launched in October 1939, it was operated by the Denholm Line. In June 1940 as part of Operation Aerial it brought 33 French scientists including Lew Kowarski and Hans Halban, and their families to Britain before the Fall of France. They brought with them 26 cans containing 185 kilograms (408 lb) of heavy water, machine tools, and $10 million in diamonds. The ship was torpedoed on 21 September 1940, but made port under its own steam.

Property	Value
dbo:MeanOfTransportation/length	136000.0
dbo:abstract	SS Broompark was a British cargo ship which was torpedoed by a U-boat on 25 July 1942 and sank three days later. Launched in October 1939, it was operated by the Denholm Line. In June 1940 as part of Operation Aerial it brought 33 French scientists including Lew Kowarski and Hans Halban, and their families to Britain before the Fall of France. They brought with them 26 cans containing 185 kilograms (408 lb) of heavy water, machine tools, and $10 million in diamonds. The ship was torpedoed on 21 September 1940, but made port under its own steam. (en)
dbo:activeYearsEndDate	1942-07-28 (xsd:date)
dbo:builder	dbr:Lithgows
dbo:length	136.000000 (xsd:double)
dbo:shipBeam	17.100000 (xsd:double)
dbo:shipDraft	7.620000 (xsd:double)
dbo:shipLaunch	1939-09-12 (xsd:date)
dbo:status	Sunk byU-boat
dbo:thumbnail	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/SS_Broompark.jpg?width=300
dbo:topSpeed	19.446000 (xsd:double)
dbo:type	dbr:Cargo_ship
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink	http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/1962.html
dbo:wikiPageID	51117765 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	11523 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	1121137740 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:Battle_of_France dbr:Bordeaux dbr:Antwerp_Diamond_Bank dbr:Renfrewshire dbr:Vancouver dbr:Department_of_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_(United_Kingdom) dbr:Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire dbr:Fregattenkapitän dbr:Gironde_estuary dbr:Corvette dbr:Official_Number dbr:Leeward dbr:Leith dbr:Lew_Kowarski dbr:Tanker_(ship) dbc:Ships_built_on_the_River_Clyde dbr:Ceremonial_ship_launching dbr:Torpedo dbr:Triple_expansion_engine dbr:Draft_(hull) dbr:Drive_shaft dbr:Code_Letters dbr:Lloyd's_War_Medal_for_Bravery_at_Sea dbr:Erich_Topp dbr:Falmouth,_Cornwall dbr:Focke-Wulf_Fw_200_Condor dbc:World_War_II_shipwrecks_in_the_Atlantic_Ocean dbr:Nuclear_power dbr:Oslo dbr:Paris dbr:Cargo_ship dbr:Denholm_Line dbr:Tugboat dbr:U-boat dbr:Length_overall dbr:Ship_grounding dbr:Propeller dbr:Greenock dbr:Heavy_water dbc:Steamships_of_the_United_Kingdom dbr:Charles_Howard,_20th_Earl_of_Suffolk dbc:Ships_sunk_by_German_submarines_in_World_War_II dbc:World_War_II_merchant_ships_of_the_United_Kingdom dbc:1939_ships dbc:Maritime_incidents_in_July_1942 dbr:Port_Glasgow dbr:St._John's,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador dbr:Gross_register_tonnage dbr:Operation_Aerial dbr:Second_World_War dbr:Christian_Salvesen dbr:Sea_captain dbr:Maritime_pilot dbr:Lithgows dbr:Clermont_Ferrand dbr:Tube_Alloys dbr:Hans_Halban dbr:Fleet_tug dbr:Fall_of_France dbr:Abeam dbr:OG_convoys
dbp:shipBuilder	dbr:Lithgows
dbp:shipCrew	49 (xsd:integer)
dbp:shipFate	Sunk by U-boat (en)
dbp:shipIdentification	Code Letters GCBC *United Kingdom Official Number 168288 (en)
dbp:shipLaunched	1939-09-12 (xsd:date)
dbp:shipLength	overall (en)
dbp:shipName	SS Broompark (en)
dbp:shipOperator	Denholm Line Steamers (en)
dbp:shipOutOfService	1942-07-28 (xsd:date)
dbp:shipOwner	J. & J. Denholm Ltd, Glasgow (en)
dbp:shipPropulsion	1 (xsd:integer)
dbp:shipRegistry	Greenock, United Kingdom (en)
dbp:shipTonnage	, (en)
dbp:shipType	dbr:Cargo_ship
dbp:shipYardNumber	921 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Cite_web dbt:Convert dbt:Coord dbt:Flagicon dbt:GS dbt:Infobox_ship_career dbt:Infobox_ship_characteristics dbt:Reflist dbt:Sfn dbt:Short_description dbt:USS dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Harvid dbt:GRT dbt:HMCS dbt:ICS dbt:NRT dbt:July_1942_shipwrecks
dcterms:subject	dbc:Ships_built_on_the_River_Clyde dbc:World_War_II_shipwrecks_in_the_Atlantic_Ocean dbc:Steamships_of_the_United_Kingdom dbc:Ships_sunk_by_German_submarines_in_World_War_II dbc:World_War_II_merchant_ships_of_the_United_Kingdom dbc:1939_ships dbc:Maritime_incidents_in_July_1942
georss:point	42.0 -40.43333333333333
rdf:type	owl:Thing schema:Product dbo:MeanOfTransportation wikidata:Q11446 geo:SpatialThing dbo:Ship
rdfs:comment	SS Broompark was a British cargo ship which was torpedoed by a U-boat on 25 July 1942 and sank three days later. Launched in October 1939, it was operated by the Denholm Line. In June 1940 as part of Operation Aerial it brought 33 French scientists including Lew Kowarski and Hans Halban, and their families to Britain before the Fall of France. They brought with them 26 cans containing 185 kilograms (408 lb) of heavy water, machine tools, and $10 million in diamonds. The ship was torpedoed on 21 September 1940, but made port under its own steam. (en)
rdfs:label	SS Broompark (1939) (en)
owl:sameAs	yago-res:SS Broompark (1939) wikidata:SS Broompark (1939) https://global.dbpedia.org/id/2eTZw
geo:geometry	POINT(-40.433334350586 42)
geo:lat	42.000000 (xsd:float)
geo:long	-40.433334 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:SS_Broompark_(1939)?oldid=1121137740&ns=0
foaf:depiction	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/SS_Broompark.jpg
foaf:homepage	http://uboat.net
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:SS_Broompark_(1939)
foaf:name	SS Broompark (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of	dbr:SS_Broompark
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:HMCS_Brandon_(K149) dbr:SS_Broompark
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:SS_Broompark_(1939)