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Built 1919
Tonnage 6,900 / 10,315 tons
Cargo: 7,640 tons of general cargo and 18 bags of mail for
Route: New York - Guantanamo - Trinidad - Saldanha Bay, South Africa
Sunk 8 JUL 43 by U-510 on pos. 05º 50"N 50º 20"W
O Dead
66 Survivors
Completed in May 1919 for US Shipping Board (USSB), later laid up as part of the reserve fleet and in 1941 reactivated for Sea Shipping Co Inc, New York.
At 05.20 hours on 8 Jul, 1943, U-510 fired three torpedoes in a one minute intervall at the convoy TJ-1 about
At 05.21 hours, the Eldena (Master Charles Clinton Bently) in station #43 was hit by one torpedo on port side in the forepeak. The explosion breached the collision bulkhead and flooded the #1 hold. The eight officers, 32 men and 26 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and eight 20mm guns) abandoned ship in four lifeboats as the ship settled by the head. Most of the survivors were picked up by the American submarine chaser USS PC-495. One hour after the attack, the master and 16 crewmen in the second lifeboat reboarded the ship and started the engines and pumps.
She was proceeding at just over four knots, when she was hit at 07.33 hours by a torpedo from the second attack by U-510. The torpedo struck one the starboard side at the #2 hatch. The explosion threw water
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