SS Levenwood (1924)

SS Levenwood
History
Name:
  • Levenwood (1924–1946)
  • Devenbrook (1946–)
Owner: Joseph Constantine Steamship Co Ltd
Launched: 1924
General characteristics
Type: store ship
Tonnage: 800 tons

SS Levenwood was a Joseph Constantine Steamship Co Ltd vessel that sailed as a coaster along the North Sea coast of eastern England between 1924 and 1946.

Dunkirk evacuation

The 800 ton store ship distinguished itself at Dunkirk on Friday 31 May 1940. The vessel was armed as a DEMS ship by soldiers of the Royal Lancashire Regiment and rescued soldiers from the Bray-Dunes area of the beach during Operation Dynamo. The ship's crew's decorations are listed in the Dunkirk lists at Greenwich as one awarded Distinguished Service Cross (Captain William Oswald Young) and two Distinguished Service Medals (Fireman Robert Moody and Gunner George Knight).[1]

This vessel was damaged towards the end of the war and renamed SS Devenbrook in 1946.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Masefield, John (2003). The Twenty Five Days. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-037-3.
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