Cree
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Cree | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.791 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Commonwealth Government Shipbuilding & Dockyard, Sydney NSW | ||
| Owner | Muir, Young SS Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 22 Nov, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-123 (Karl-Heinz Moehle) | ||
| Position | 54.39N, 18.50W - Grid AL 6572 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 45 (45 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | SL-53 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Pepel - Freetown (27 Oct) - Workington | ||
| Cargo | 5500 tons of iron ore | ||
| History | Built as Biloela, 1931 renamed Wollert, 1932 renamed Ivanhoe, 1937 renamed Yoh Hsing, 1937 renamed Cree | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.21 hours on 22 Nov, 1940, the Cree (Master Robert Herbert Twentyman), a straggler from convoy SL-53, was torpedoed and sunk by U-123 about 365 miles west of Bloody Foreland. The master, 42 crew members and two gunners were lost. | ||
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