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Built 1920
Tonnage 4,981 / 7,800 tons
Cargo: 5,776 tons of manganese ore, jute, burlap and hemp.
Route: Colombo, Ceylon - Capetown
Sunk 09 OCT 42 by U-
11 Dead
40 Survivors
Completed in January 1920 as Coeur d'Alene for US Shipping Board (USSB), Philadelphia. 1928 renamed Examelia for American Export Lines Inc, New York.
At 03.44 hours on 9 Oct, 1942, the unescorted Examelia (Master Andrew Tulenko) was hit by one torpedo from U - 68 about
The explosion stopped the engines immediately and caused the ship to sink within seven minutes. 43 of the eight officers, 30 men and 13 armed guard (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) abandoned ship in two lifeboats, four rafts and two floats. The first boat could not be successfully launched and went down with the ship, taking two men along. The other boat capsized because of the rapid sinking, drowning one man.
The master, one officer, six men and three armed guards died. Another lifeboat floated free and the survivors righted the capsized boat and distributed the men between the two boats. U-68 surfaced and questioned the survivors before leaving. The same day, the survivors were picked up by the American steam merchant John Lykes and taken to Port Elizabeth, South Africa from which they traveled to Capetown by train.
On 21 October, all 40 survivors left Capetown on Zandaam, which was sunk by U-174 (Thilo) on 2 November. 21 of the original survivors died in this sinking. 11 crew members and three armed guards spent five days in a lifeboat before they were picked up by the Gulfstate, which took them to
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