SS Gracechurch
SS "Gracechurch was a UK cargo ship built by William Doxford & Sons at Pallion on Wearside in 1930. She twice changed owners and names, becoming SS "Peebles in 1933 and SS "Mill Hill" in 1936. She was sunk by a German submarine in August 1940. Engines. The ship had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of feeding three 180 lb/in single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . Names and owners. "Gracechurch" was first owned by Gracechurch Shipping Co of Newcastle and managed by James, Muers & Co of Cardiff. In 1933 she was sold  to B.J. Sutherland & Co who renamed her "Peebles". In 1936 she was sold to the Mill Hill Steam Ship Co Ltd, which was controlled by Counties Ship Management (an offshoot of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company of London) who renamed her "Mill Hill". Loss. On 16 August 1940 "Mill Hill" left Halifax, Nova Scotia as a member of convoy HX 66A laden with pig iron and scrap steel for Middlesbrough, England. Between 0220 and 0248 hrs on 30 August 58 miles off Cape Wrath in the north of Scotland "" torpedoed the convoy, sinking three ships. One was "Mill Hill", which  sank within a few minutes with the loss of all hands. Replacement ships. "Gracechurch" was the third of four ships that B.J. Sutherland & Co named "Peebles". When Sutherland sold her in 1936, William Doxford & Sons completed a new 4,982-ton cargo ship MV "Peebles" for Sutherland. She survived the Second World War and in 1951 Sutherland sold her to Westralian Farmers Transport who renamed her "Swanstream". In 1957 Westralian sold to J. Manners & Co. of Hong Kong who renamed her "San Fernando". In 1965 Manners sold to her to Yong & Lee Timber who renamed her "Phoenician Star". She was scrapped  at Hong Kong in 1967. "Gracechurch" was the first of two ships that Counties Ship Management named "Mill Hill". In 1947 CSM bought the 7,219-ton Liberty ship SS "Samdon" and renamed her SS "Mill Hill". "Samdon" had been built by New England Shipbuilding Corporation of Portland, Maine in 1943. In 1949 she was transferred from CSM to a new Rethymnis and Kulukundis company, London and Overseas Freighters, retaining the name "Mill Hill". In 1951 LOF sold her to new owners who renamed her "Educator". She was scrapped in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1961.