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Built: 1918
Tonnage: 5,658 / 8,500 tons
Cargo: Part cargo of chrome ore as ballast.
Route: Mombassa - Capetown - Trinidad - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sunk 22 FEB 42 by U-129 on pos. 09º 13"N 59º 04"W
0 Dead
35 Survivors
Completed December 1918 for US Shipping Board (USSB), later laid up as part of the reserve
At 04.43 hours on 22 Feb, 1942, the unarmed and unescorted West Zeda (Master Ivar J.H. Rosequist) was hit on the starboard side by one G7a torpedo from U-129 about
At 04.57 hours, a G7 coup de grâce hit amidships in the engine room and caused the ship to break in two and to sink after ten minutes. At noon the survivors were picked up by the schooner Emeralda from St. Vincent after being spotted by an US Navy patrol aircraft and taken to
The West Zeda had been bombed while at
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