SHIPS HIT BRITAIN 239 * - A B C

63)COLONIAL U-107

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Built: 1926

Tonnage: 5,108 / 8,030 tons

Cargo: 3,500 tons of general cargo

Route: Liverpool - Freetown - Beira

Sunk 27 MAY 41 by U-107 on pos. 09º 13’N 15º 09’W

0 Dead

100 Survivors

At 01.01 hours on 27 May 1941, the Colonial (Master Joseph Devereaux), dispersed from convoy OB-318, was hit by one torpedo from U-107 and sank after a coup de grâce at 01.46 hours about 200 miles west-northwest of Freetown. The master, the convoy commodore (Rear Admiral W.B. Mackenzie RN), 88 crew members, six naval staff members and four gunners were picked up by the British battleshipHMS Centurion ( I 50) (LtCdr R.W. Wainwright) and landed at Freetown. 

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