Assyrian
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| Name | Assyrian | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.962 tons | ||
| Completed | 1914 - Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | ||
| Owner | Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-101 (Fritz Frauenheim) | ||
| Position | 57.12N, 10.43W - Grid AM 2958 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 51 (17 dead and 34 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-7 | ||
| Route | New Orleans - Sydney (5 Oct) - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 3700 tons of grain | ||
| History | Built as German motor merchant Fritz, 1920 taken over by Britain and renamed Assyrian, 1925 converted to steam merchant | ||
| Notes on loss | At 01.22 hours on 19 Oct, 1940, U-101 fired three bow torpedoes at the convoy SC-7 about 102 miles west by north of Barra Head, Outer Hebrides, and two minutes later the stern torpedo. Frauenheim reported four hits on four ships and claimed 21.000 grt sunk. However, the Assyrian was hit by a bow torpedo and the Soesterberg by the stern torpedo. The Assyrian (Master Reginald Sanderson Kearon) was the ship of the convoy commodore Vice-Admiral Lachlan D.I. Mackinnon CB CVO RN. 15 crew members and two naval staff members were lost. The master, the commodore, three naval staff members, 20 crew members and nine passengers were picked up by the HMS Leith (L 36) (Cdr Roland C. Allen) and landed at Liverpool. The master, Reginald Sanderson Kearon, was awarded the Lloyd´s War Medal for bravery at sea. | ||
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