Ciscar
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| Name | Ciscar | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.809 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - H. & C. Grayson Ltd, Garston, Liverpool | ||
| Owner | MacAndrews & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Aug, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-201 (Adalbert Schnee) | ||
| Position | 49.10N, 17.40W - Grid BE 2567 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 48 (13 dead and 35 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OG-71 | ||
| Route | Bristol - Gibraltar | ||
| Cargo | 1400 tons of general cargo and government stores | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 04.06 hours on 19 Aug, 1941, U-201 fired a salvo of four torpedoes at the convoy OG-71 west-southwest of Fastnet Rock and observed two detonations on a tanker and two further detonations on two ships beyond her. Schnee claimed three ships sunk of 20.000 tons, but in fact the Ciscar and Aguila were sunk. The master, 29 crew members and five gunners from the Ciscar (Master Edward Lenton Hughes) were picked up by the British merchant Petrel and landed at Lisbon. Nine crew members and four gunners were lost. Four crew members from the Ciscar were later repatriated on the Cervantes, which was sunk by U-124 (Mohr) on 26 September. Three of them were lost. | ||
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