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SS Empire Tower was a British cargo ship built in 1935 and sunk by enemy action in 1943. She was built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd. in Fife, Scotland. The North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Sunderland built her 335 NHP three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine. She had six corrugated furnaces with a combined heating surface of heat to heat her three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of . She was fitted with direction finding equipment.

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  • SS Empire Tower was a British cargo ship built in 1935 and sunk by enemy action in 1943. She was built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd. in Fife, Scotland. The North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Sunderland built her 335 NHP three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine. She had six corrugated furnaces with a combined heating surface of heat to heat her three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of . She was fitted with direction finding equipment.
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  • Approximate position of Empire Towers wreck
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  • SS Empire Tower was a British cargo ship built in 1935 and sunk by enemy action in 1943. She was built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd. in Fife, Scotland. The North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Sunderland built her 335 NHP three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine. She had six corrugated furnaces with a combined heating surface of heat to heat her three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers, which had a combined heating surface of . She was fitted with direction finding equipment. She was launched as SS Roxburgh for B.J. Sutherland and Company of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1937 the Tower Hill Steamship Company, an off-shoot of Counties Ship Management, bought her and renamed her SS Tower Field.
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