s.s. 'Birchgrove ' - The s.s. 'Birchgrove' was a British merchant steamer which was torpedoed without warning on the 2nd December 1917 by U84 and sunk whilst 10 nautical miles off the Île de Groix, Brittany, France. One crew member was lost. At the time she was defensively-armed and on a voyage from Penarth for Bordeaux with a cargo of coal.

She was built at the yard of Ropner & Sons of Stockton-on-Tees and launched as the s.s. 'Dovedale' during October 1894. She was a general cargo, single screw, steamship of 2,821 gross and 1,796 net register tons being 315.0 ft. in length x 42.8 ft. breath x 18.4 ft. depth.

During 1913 she became the s.s. 'Birchgrove' upon change of ownership to the Steamship Mary Limited, (Alexander & Mair), of Glasgow. [801]  [794]