SS Tregenna

The SS Tregenna was a steamship built by Wm. Gray and Company Ltd. for Edward Hain & Son of St Ives, England. Originally named the War Bulldog, she was renamed before completion in 1919.

On 17 September 1940, the SS Tregenna was sunk by GS U-65 (1940) while travelling in convoy 78 mi north-west of Rockall. Thirty-three of the 37 crew aboard were killed, including the Master, William Thomas Care. She was en route from Halifax to Newport, England carrying 8000 ST of steel. The four survivors were rescued by the ship travelling astern of her in the convoy.