MV Santagata

Santagata was a 7,049 gross register ton cargo ship built in 1943 by Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co (Shipbuilders) Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne as Empire Farmer for the Ministry of War Transport, yard number 3. She was launched on 8 March 1943 and completed in May, and was 430 feet 9 inches long with a 56 foot 2 inch beam. A 2,500 horsepower triple expansion steam engine drove a single screw at 11 knots. She sailed in Mediterranean convoys during Operation Husky as convoy commodore ship. Sold to the French Government in 1945 and renamed Administrateur en Chef Thomas, then to Italy in 1950 as Santagata, she was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands later in 1950.