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13)NAILSEA MANOR U-126*
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Built: 1937
Tonnage: 4,926 / 8,970 tons
Cargo: 6,000 tons of military stores, including 1,000 tons of ammunition, mail and a LCT as deck cargo
Route: Newport, Mon. - Belfast Lough - Freetown - Suez
Sunk 10 OCT 41 by U-126 on pos. 18° 45'N 21° 18'W
0 Dead
42 Survivors
SS Nailsea Manor (Master: John Herbert Hewitt) was torpedoed and sunk by U-126 at 05.43 hours on October 10, 1941 in position 18.45N, 21.18W (about 180 miles NE of the Cape Verde Islands). Bad weather had caused the deck cargo (including a 450 ton landing craft) to shift and she was straggling in company with Ger-y-Bryn and Hazelside and protected by HMS Violet. The master, 35 crew members, 5 gunners and one passenger were picked up by the corvette, transferred to the City of Hong Kong and landed at Freetown on October 14. There were no fatalities.
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