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24)EMPIRE CHAUCER MoWT U-504




Sister ship Empire Hunter seen later as the polish ship Bytom. Photo http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images10/empirehunter5.jpg


 


Built: 1942


Tonnage: 5,970 / 3,501 tons


Cargo: 2000 tons of pig iron and 6500 tons of general cargo, including tea and bags of mail


Route: Calcutta - Durban - Capetown - Trinidad – UK


Sunk 17 OCT 42 by U-504 on pos. 38° 12'S 20° 04'E


3 Dead


47 Survivors


Built for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) 


At 06.15 hours on 17 Oct 1942 the unescorted Empire Chaucer (Master Roy Jennings) was torpedoed and sunk by U-504 about 450 miles south of Capetown. Three crew members were lost. She had also one passenger on board which was among the survivors. The master and 11 survivors were picked up by the British merchant Empire Squire and landed at Trinidad. 15 survivors in one lifeboat were picked up by the British merchant Nebraska after 23 days in an open boat and landed at Capetown. The remaining 20 survivors in another lifeboat landed at Bredasdorp near Simonstown after 14 days.


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