MV Tower Grange
MV "Tower Grange" was a cargo ship completed by William Doxford & Sons Ltd in Sunderland in 1940. She was owned by Tower 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. "Tower Grange" was a sister ship of , which Doxford built in the same year for another CSM company, Putney Hill Steamships Co Ltd. Sinking. In 1942 "Tower Grange" under Captain William Henry Williamson had sailed from Calcutta bound for Trinidad and the UK with a mixed cargo of 8,332 tons  including 1,800 tons of manganese ore. She called at Cape Town on 27 October. At 0834 hrs on 17 November the sighted her sailing unescorted in the western Atlantic, but "Tower Grange" steered a zigzag course that prevented attack. At 0639 hrs the next morning "U-154" fired a spread of three torpedoes but "Tower Grange" evaded them. At 0701 hrs "U-154" fired a second spread, two of which hit "Tower Grange", killing four crew and two DEMS gunners and sinking her about 250 miles northeast of Cayenne, French Guiana. "Tower Grange's" survivors abandoned ship but the lifeboats became separated . After six days the Anchor Line cargo steamship rescued Captain Williamson and 29 crew on 23 November and landed them on Trinidad four days later. Two days later the Scottish cargo steamship rescued the First Officer and ten other survivors on 25 November and took them to Trinidad. Replacement ship. In 1947 Tower Steamships bought the 1944-built Empire ship "Empire Morley" and renamed her "Tower Grange". In 1959 she was transferred to a new Rethymnis & Kulukundis Company, London & Overseas Freighters, who renamed her "London Trader". In 1950 LOF sold her to new owners who registered her under the Panamanian  flag of convenience as "Nico". She was scrapped in Etajima, Japan in 1969.