Garmula
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| Name | Garmula | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.254 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 23 Jul, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-752 (Karl-Ernst Schroeter) | ||
| Position | 05.32N, 14.45W - Grid ET 5967 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 88 (21 dead and 67 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Melbourne - Capetown (8 Jul) - Freetown - UK | ||
| Cargo | 6009 tons of grain | ||
| History | Launched as War Reynard, completed May 1920 as Garmula | ||
| Notes on loss | On 23 Jul, 1942, the unescorted Garmula (Master Robert C. Brown) was torpedoed and sunk by U-752 about 200 miles southwest of Freetown. The master, 61 crew members and five gunners were picked up by the British armed trawler HMS Pict (FY 132) (LtCdr W.N.H. Faichney) and landed at Freetown. 20 crew members and one gunner were lost. | ||
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