Several steamships have borne the name Flynderborg, after the fortress in Denmark:
- SS Flynderborg was a 1,387-ton cargo ship launched on 26 September 1901, by Helsingør Værft, Helsingør, Denmark. Torpedoed and sunk on 21 October 1917. [1]
- SS Flynderborg was a 1,417-ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1919, by Helsingør Værft, Helsingør, Denmark. Wrecked on 13 March 1930. [2]
- SS Flynderborg was a 1,999-ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 29 April 1930, by W. Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool, England. Torpedoed and sunk on 3 November 1941 [3]
- SS Flynderborg was a 2,342-ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 29 July 1949, by W. Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool, England. Scrapped in 1972. [4]
Helsingør, classically known in English as Elsinore, is a city in eastern Denmark.
The SS Flynderborg was a Danish steam merchant ship. She was taken over after the fall of Denmark during the Second World War, and sailed under the British flag. She sailed in a number of convoys before being sunk whilst carrying supplies to the UK in 1941.
West Hartlepool refers to the western part of what has since the 1960s been known as the borough of Hartlepool in North East England. It was originally formed in 1854 as the result of the opening of seaside docks and railways that connected the docks to cities to the east and west.
