Hengist
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| Name | Hengist | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 984 tons | ||
| Completed | 1928 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee | ||
| Owner | James Currie & Co Ltd, Leith | ||
| Homeport | Leith | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Mar, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-569 (Hans-Peter Hinsch) | ||
| Position | 59.31N, 10.15W - Grid AM 2417 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 32 (3 dead and 29 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Reykjavik (6 Mar) - Scrabster - Grimsby | ||
| Cargo | 700 tons of fish | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 19.17 hours on 8 Mar, 1942, the unescorted Hengist (Master Arthur Jamieson) was torpedoed by U-569 northwest of Cape Wrath and sunk by a coup de grāce at 20.04 hours. Two crew members and one gunner were lost. The master, 24 crew members and four gunners were picked up by the French trawler Groenland and landed at Loch Ewe. | ||
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