Bennekom
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| Name | Bennekom | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,998 tons | ||
| Completed | 1917 - Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges., Flensburg | ||
| Owner | Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Mij NV, Amsterdam | ||
| Homeport | Batavia | ||
| Date of attack | 31 Oct 1941 | Nationality:  Dutch | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-96 (Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock) | ||
| Position | 51.20N, 23.40W - Grid BE 1125 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 54 (8 dead and 46 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OS-10 | ||
| Route | Liverpool - Table Bay - Colombo - Madras | ||
| Cargo | 900 tons of general cargo and 300 tons of government stores | ||
| History | Launched as Gera for Deutsch-Australische DG, Hamburg, completed in February 1919 as Bürgermeister Schröder for G.J.H. Siemers & Co, Hamburg. 1920 taken over by Britain and renamed Bourne for D.G. Pinkney & Co, Sunderland. 1921 sold to the Netherlands and renamed Bennekom for Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Mij NV, Amsterdam. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 22.47 hours on 31 Oct, 1941, U-96 attacked the convoy OS-10 and claimed the sinking of two ships with 13.000 grt. In fact, only the Bennekom was hit on the port side in the deep tank by one torpedo, caught fire and sank. Five crew members and three gunners were lost. The survivors were picked up the next day by HMS Culver (Y 87) (LtCdr R.T. Gordon-Duff, RN) and landed at Bathurst. | ||
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