The September 2007 issue of Railway Magazine has an article entitled “Locos Lost At Sea” by Mike Hudson and Philip Atkins, which attempts to list all the locomotives which have been lost beneath the waves through ship wrecks and the like.
It mentions in passing “an Iraqi streamlined Pacific”, and a table of sunken locos lists it as lost “1940(?)”.
This is the Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns loco which was to have been Iraqi railways PC class number 504 Kirkuk.
- A big works photo of one of the locos, I think 502 El Mosul.
- The Restoration & Archiving Trust has some colour photos of these locos.
- Some technical specifications of the PC class
