Victor Ross
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| Name | Victor Ross | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 12.247 tons | ||
| Completed | 1933 - Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack | ||
| Owner | British Mexican Petroleum Co, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Dec, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-43 (Wolfgang Lüth) | ||
| Position | 56.04N, 18.30W - Grid AL 6244 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 44 (44 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | OB-251 | ||
| Route | Liverpool - New York | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | In 1940 the Victor Ross of Panama Transport Co, Panama was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 09.41 hours on 2 Dec, 1940, the Victor Ross (Master Ernest Butler Case) in convoy OB-251 was hit by two torpedoes from U-43 and sank by the stern after being hit aft by a coup de grāce at 10.15 hours 355 miles 210° from Bloody Foreland, Co. Donegal. The tanker had been missed by a first coup de grāce at 09.50 hours and the U-boat had to evade a ramming attempt by diving shortly afterwards. The master, 42 crew members and one gunner were lost. | ||
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