Toorak
British Steam tanker
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| Name | Toorak | ||
| Type: | Steam tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 8,627 tons | ||
| Completed | 1927 - Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Socony-Vacuum Transportation Co Ltd, Montreal | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 16 Jan 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Damaged by U-86 (Walter Schug) | ||
| Position | 47° 54'N, 52° 11'W - Grid BB 6362 | ||
| Complement | 51 (0 dead and 51 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | ON-52 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Coryton - Halifax | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed in December 1927 as Voco for Vacuum Oil Co Ltd, London. 1934 renamed Toorak for Standard Transportation Co Ltd, Hong Kong. 1941 transferred to Socony-Vacuum Transportation Co Ltd, London. Post-war: 1949 registered in Honduras as Omiros for Soc. Maritima Miraflores Ltda (A.S. Onassis), Puerto Cortes. Broken up at Hamburg in February 1961. | ||
| Notes on event | At 13.58 hours on 16 January 1942, U-86 fired a spread of two torpedoes at Toorak (Master Frederick Henry Graham), dispersed from convoy ON-52, and heard one detonation before contact was lost with the ship in heavy snowfall. The Germans managed to locate the tanker again after about one hour, but missed her with two torpedoes at 15.11 and 15.34 hours and gave up the chase because every attack had been evaded and the distress signals alerted the nearby coast. | ||
| On board | We have details of 2 people who were on board. | ||
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