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Built 1928
Tonnage: 3,845 / 5,861 tons
Cargo: Palm oil, timber and tin ore.
Route: Freetown for Liverpool via the West Indies and Canada
Sunk 03 NOV 42 when in convoy TS 23 by Italian submarine Ammiraglio Cagni on pos 02º 29’N 19º 00’W
19 Dead
44 Survivors
The motorship Dagomba, Capt. J. T. Marshall, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on November 3rd, 1942, about 500 miles S.W. of Freetown. Of her complement of 56 crew, six gunners and one passenger, 23 were picked up by a French Vichy patrol vessel and interned, 21 including the captain were rescued by the Portuguese ship Bartolomeu Dias and landed at Luanda.
Above a side view from Ammiraglio Cagni. Photo wikimedia