Appalachee
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| Name | Appalachee | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 8.826 tons | ||
| Completed | 1930 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Newcastle | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Dec, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-101 (Ernst Mengersen) | ||
| Position | 54.30N, 20W - Grid AL 5883 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 39 (7 dead and 32 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-90 | ||
| Route | Baytown, Texas - Bermuda - Avonmouth | ||
| Cargo | 11.706 tons of aviation spirit | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 22.12 hours on 1 Dec, 1940, U-101 attacked the convoy HX-90 about 340 miles west of Bloody Foreland and claimed one ship of 8000 tons sunk (Loch Ranza was only damaged), one ship of 6000 tons damaged (not confirmed) and one tanker of 12.000 tons sunk (Appalachee). Seven crew members from the Appalachee (Master Warwick Armstrong) were lost. The master and 31 crew members were picked up by the HMS Heliotrope (K 03) (LtCdr J. Jackson) and landed at Londonderry. | ||
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