Designer
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| Name | Designer | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.945 tons | ||
| Completed | 1928 - D. & W. Henderson & Co Ltd, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | T. & J. Harrison, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 9 Jul, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-98 (Robert Gysae) | ||
| Position | 42.59N, 31.40W - Grid CE 1344 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 78 (67 dead and 11 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OB-341 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Ellesmere Port - Capetown | ||
| Cargo | Military stores and 200 bags of mail | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 01.55 hours on 9 Jul, 1941, the Designer (Master Donald Archibald McCallum), dispersed on 6 July in 48°30N/26°30W from convoy OB-341, was torpedoed and sunk by U-98 north-northwest of the Azores. The master and 66 crew members were lost. On 10 July, ten crew members (lascars) and one gunner in one lifeboat were picked up by the Portuguese sailing ship Souta Princesca and landed at Leixoes. | ||
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