Qualla: SS Seniority https://qualla.com/ss-seniority en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: SS Seniority https://qualla.com/ss-seniority SS Seniority: Introduction https://qualla.com/ss-seniority/ She had survived the North Atlantic in 1943. She had crossed to the Mediterranean and back. She had outlasted the war that built her, been sold twice, renamed twice. On 7 November 1950 she ran aground at Leinish Point in the Inner Hebrides. They refloated her. For one day she floated again. On 8 November she sank off the Bo Vich Chuan Rock and stayed down. Her name by then was Seniority. She had begun life eight years earlier as Empire Boswell.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/e/ss-seniority-wp/gf4e-ss-seniority-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full SS Seniority: Built for War https://qualla.com/ss-seniority/ William Gray & Co. of West Hartlepool launched her on 2 June 1942 as yard number 738. By August 1942 she was complete. The Empire prefix marked her as a wartime construction for the Ministry of War Transport, part of the desperate British effort to replace the merchant tonnage be...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/e/ss-seniority-wp/gf4e-ss-seniority-built-for-war.mp3 0:06 2 full SS Seniority: Convoy SC 129 https://qualla.com/ss-seniority/ Convoy SC 129 left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 2 May 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on 21 May. It was a slow convoy of merchant ships during one of the most brutal months of the Battle of the Atlantic. Empire Boswell was part of that crossing. The pattern of those weeks was steady an...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/e/ss-seniority-wp/gf4e-ss-seniority-convoy-sc-129.mp3 0:06 3 full SS Seniority: Three Names, One Hull https://qualla.com/ss-seniority/ In 1945, with the war ending, her management passed to the British-India Steam Navigation Company. Two years later, the Ministry of War Transport sold her into commercial service. Aviation & Shipping Co Ltd bought her and renamed her Aviswell. Purvis Shipping Co Ltd managed her. ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/e/ss-seniority-wp/gf4e-ss-seniority-three-names-one-hull.mp3 0:06 4 full SS Seniority: The Final Day at Bo Vich Chuan https://qualla.com/ss-seniority/ On 7 November 1950, Seniority ran aground at Leinish Point. The rocks of the Hebrides have claimed countless ships over the centuries. There is nothing unusual about a grounding in these waters. The unusual thing was that they refloated her at all. Her hull must have been badly d...

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