Photo. City of Vancouver Archives CVA 447-2721
Built 1921
Tonnage 5,688 / 9,200 tons
Cargo: 200 tons of general cargo and 1,800 tons of salt ballast.
Route: Suez - Capetown - Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana
Sunk 11 OCT 42 by U-514 on pos. 05º 48"N 51º 39"W.
1 Dead
46 Survivors
At 00.10 hours on 12 Oct, 1942, the unescorted Steel Scientist (Master Karl O. Bornson) was struck on the starboard side in the #4 hold by a torpedo from U-514 while steaming at 11 knots on a zigzag course about
About 10 minutes later, all but one crew member of the ten officers, 28 crewmen and nine armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) on board abandoned ship in three lifeboats and a gig, the fourth lifeboat was left hanging vertically on its davit.
At 00.22 hours, a first coup de grâce hit and showered the gig about
The U-boat surfaced near the gig containing the master and the radio operator and asked for the master but they told the Germans that he was not present so they left the area. The two men made landfall on 19 October at Tarlogie Loretyne near New Amsterdam,
By Steel Scientist (American Steam merchant) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net
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