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Allied Ships hit by U-boats


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NameDesigner
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage5.945 tons
Completed1928 - D. & W. Henderson & Co Ltd, Glasgow 
OwnerT. & J. Harrison, Liverpool 
HomeportLiverpool 
Date of attack9 Jul, 1941Nationality:      British
 
FateSunk by U-98 (Robert Gysae)
Position42.59N, 31.40W - Grid CE 1344
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Complement78 (67 dead and 11 survivors).
ConvoyOB-341 (dispersed)
RouteEllesmere Port - Capetown 
CargoMilitary 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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