Pleasantville
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| Name | Pleasantville | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.549 tons | ||
| Completed | 1929 - Burmeister & Wain´s Maskin & Skibsbyggeri A/S, Copenhagen | ||
| Owner | A.F. Klaveness & Co A/S, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Jun, 1942 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-135 (Friedrich-Hermann Praetorius) | ||
| Position | 34.12N, 68.00W - Grid DC 3244 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 47 (2 dead and 45 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | New York (3 Jun) - Capetown - Alexandria | ||
| Cargo | 3000 tons of phosphate and war material, including cars, trucks, aircraft and two locomotives as deck cargo | ||
| History | Completed in December 1929 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.16 hours on 8 Jun, 1942, the unescorted Pleasantville (Master Johan Wildhagen) was hit on the port side forward by one torpedo from U-135 northwest of Bermuda. The ship had left New York in a coastal convoy, which was dispersed off Chesapeake Bay. Shortly after the crew and ten passengers (engineers of the US Army on transfer to North Africa) abandoned ship in three lifeboats, the ship was struck on the port side in the engine room by a coup de grâce and sank quickly at 03.41 hours. The master and one crew member were lost. The U-boat surfaced, questioned the men in two lifeboats and offered help, but it was declined by the first officer of the merchant, who had also ordered the passengers to throw their dogtags and other items that identified them as soldiers into the water before the U-boat approached. Eight crew members and two passengers in one lifeboat were picked up in the afternoon on the next day by Chickasaw City in 34°36N/69°55W and landed in Port of Spain on 18 June. The 35 survivors in the remaining two boats were picked up on 11 June by Paderewski and landed at Trinidad. | ||
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