Memnon
| Name | Memnon | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 7.506 tons | ||
| Completed | 1931 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee | ||
| Owner | Alfred Holt & Co, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 11 Mar, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-106 (Jürgen Oesten) | ||
| Position | 20.41N, 21.00W - Grid DT 9252 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 74 (5 dead and 69 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Port Pirie, South Australia (28 Jan) - Freetown - Avonmouth - Swansea | ||
| Cargo | 7629 tons of general cargo, including 2697 tons of wheat and 3026 tons of zinc concentrates | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 15.46 hours on 11 Mar, 1941, the unescorted Memnon (Master John Parry Williams) was hit by one torpedo from U-106 about 200 miles west of Cape Blanco, French West Africa and sank by the stern 15 minutes later following a second hit at 15.47 hours. Three crew members and two passengers (RAF personnel) were lost. The master and 21 survivors landed at Yoff near Dakar on 21 March and were detained by the Vichy French authorities, were later released and went to Bathurst. The remaining survivors landed at Bathurst on 24 March, one of these lifeboats with 24 survivors had been found by the German battleship Gneisenau, which took three passengers and one gunner as prisoners on board. | ||
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