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Built 1935
Tonnage 4,275 / 5,904 tons
Cargo; 5,380 tons of palm oil
Route: Port Harcourt - Lagos - UK
Sunk 20 MAR 44 by U-66 on pos. 05º 07’N 04º 07’E
0 Dead
43 Survivors
On 21 March 1944 the unescorted Matadian (Master Cyril Gordon Silwyn Shorter) was torpedoed and sunk by U-66 southeast of Lagos. The master, 38 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by the British motor launch HMS ML-282 (SubLt D.R. Pearson), transferred to the British motor launch HMS ML-1016 and landed at Lagos.
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