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During their career at sea, they began to buy shares in ships, gradually making the transition from captain to owner. The company that would become
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Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. in 1936. On 4 December 1939 she was in an east coast convoy in the North Sea when she suffered an explosion caused by either a torpedo or a mine. She sank with the loss of five of her crew.
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