The SS Empire Heritage was built in 1930 by Armstrong Whitworth & Company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but actually started life under another name as Tafelberg, a 15,000-ton steam tanker.
It was first used in South Africa as whale factory ship until January 1941 when it was hit by a mine and put out of service. A year later, the wreckage was re-floated and the ship salvaged. She was repaired, re-purposed and renamed Empire Heritage by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and returned to service in February 1943. An unintentional casualty of war in her first life, she would fall foul of a more pointed and specific attack in her second incarnation.
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