Margaret
Photo courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News VA
| Name | Margaret | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3,352 tons | ||
| Completed | 1916 - Maryland Steel Co, Sparrow’s Point MD | ||
| Owner | A.H. Bull & Co Inc, New York | ||
| Homeport | New York | ||
| Date of attack | 14 Apr 1942 | Nationality:  American | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-571 (Helmut Möhlmann) | ||
| Position | Grid CA 8754 - See estimated map location (35.15N73.55W) * | ||
| Complement | 29 (29 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | San Juan, Puerto Rico (8 April) - New York | ||
| Cargo | 4508 tons of sugar | ||
| History | Completed in April 1916 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 21.02 hours on 14 Apr, 1942, U-571 fired one bow torpedo at the unescorted and unarmed Margaret (Master Leonard Logren Davis) off Cape Cod and observed a hit aft after 42 seconds. They had spotted the steamer about three hours earlier on a northerly zigzag course. The torpedo detonation ripped open the hull to the upper deck and caused her to sink by the stern within five minutes after a boiler explosion. Some survivors were seen to leave the ship in a lifeboat and several rafts, but none of the eight officers and 21 crewmen were ever found. | ||
* Estimated position shown here is based on positions of losses in a roughly the same German grid code. It may be a bit off but should give a good idea as to where the attack took place.
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