SS Magdapur

SS Magdapur was a cargo ship mined and sunk off Thorpeness, Suffolk, by a Nazi German submarine in the Second World War.

The SS Magdapur sailed for the Brocklebank Line.

On 10 September 1939, 1 week after the declaration of war, she was underway in ballast from Tyne to Southampton, her master was Arthur Dixon. On that day she struck by a mine laid by the GS U-13 (1935). She sank at 17:25. Six people died as a result of the attack, but 75 people were rescued from the sea by the Aldeburgh Lifeboat. Her crew included lascars.