Marilyse Moller
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| Name | Marilyse Moller | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 786 tons | ||
| Completed | 1915 - Kiangnan Dock & Engineering Works, Shanghai | ||
| Owner | Moller & Co Ltd, Shanghai | ||
| Homeport | Shanghai | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Jul 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-97 (Friedrich Bürgel) | ||
| Position | 31.22N, 33.44E - Grid CP 8282 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 35 (31 dead and 4 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Beirut - Port Said - Alexandria | ||
| Cargo | cased benzine | ||
| History | Built as Chinese Tseang Tah, 1941 sold Britain and renamed Marilyse Moller. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 13.43 hours on 1 Jul, 1942, U-97 fired two torpedoes at a small convoy (codenamed Nugget) northeast of Port Said and hit the Marilyse Moller (Master Douglas Stuart Pethick) amidships with one torpedo. The ship exploded and sank immediately. She had been missed by a first torpedo at 13.41 hours. The master and 30 crew members were lost. Four crew members were picked up by HMS Burra (T 158) (Lt W.J. Harrison) and landed at Port Said. | ||
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