MS Belpamela

MS Belpamela was a heavy lift motor cargo ship of the Norwegian shipping company Belships, built by Armstrong Whitworth in February 1928 at its High Walker shipyard as yard number 1028, the first of two identical ships. She had two large holds with unusually large hatches, a load capacity of around 4,500 tons, six 5 tonne loading beams and heavy lift booms of 30 and 100 tonnes, and was used for locomotives, railway vehicles, lightships and other bulky loads. In 1939 she carried a streamlined Coronation Scot train from Southampton to Baltimore for the New York World's Fair. She sank on 11 April 1947 off Newfoundland on passage from New York to Cherbourg after her cargo of 17 locomotives shifted in a storm.