Ocean Might
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| Name | Ocean Might | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (Ocean (British Liberty)) | ||
| Tonnage | 7.173 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp, Portland ME | ||
| Owner | Maclay & McIntyre Ltd, Glasgow | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 3 Sep, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-109 (Heinrich Bleichrodt) | ||
| Position | 00.57N, 04.11W - Grid FF 3658 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 54 (4 dead and 50 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OS-37 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Liverpool (9 Aug) - Capetown - Middle East | ||
| Cargo | 7000 tons of military stores | ||
| History | Completed in June 1942 for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.50 hours on 3 Sep, 1942, the Ocean Might (Master William James Park), dispersed from convoy OS-37 was hit in the stern by one torpedo from U-109 southwest of Takoradi and sunk by a coup de grāce at 01.10 hours after the crew had abandoned ship. Bleichrodt then searched for the lifeboats in order to take the master prisoner, but he was not able to find them in the darkness. The U-boat had first sighted the zigzagging ship at 18.28 hours on 1 September and fired a spread of three torpedoes at 19.22 hours the next day during a second attack attempt. All torpedoes missed because the steamer turned away, the same happened as a stern torpedo was fired two minutes later. Bleichrodt surfaced and overtook the ship with full speed, but missed again at 00.49 hours with a first torpedo, until the sixth torpedo fired hit the vessel ending a 30 hours long hunt. Three crew members and one gunner were lost. The master, 40 crew members and nine gunners landed 35 miles east of Accra at Ningo, Gold Coast. | ||
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