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Built: 1942
Tonnage: 7.191 / 10,100
Cargo: Water ballast.
Route: Suez - Port Elizabeth - Capetown - Bahia, Brazil - Georgetown, British Guiana
Sunk 9 MAR 43 by U-510 on pos. 07º40"N 52º07"W.
6 Dead
52 Survivors
Between 06.04 and 06.11 hours on 9 Mar, 1943, U-510 fired torpedoes during a second attack at the convoy BT-6 about
The explosion destroyed the shaft and engines, killed three men on watch below, ruptured steam lines and fuel tanks, disabled the radio and caused a list to starboard. Most of the eight officers, 35 crewmen and 15 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) on board abandoned ship in two lifeboats and two rafts.The commander of the armed guards and one crewman remained on board and were joined by the master and one crewman who reboarded the ship at daylight.
40 survivors were picked up by USS Courage (PG 70), but three of them died from steam burns and 15 were transferred to USS Borie (DD 215) before all were landed at
By Thomas Ruffin (American Steam merchant) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net
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