Bill
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| Name | Bill | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.445 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - A/S Moss Værft & Dokk, Moss | ||
| Owner | L. Gill-Johannessen, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 29 Jul, 1942 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-155 (Adolf Cornelius Piening) | ||
| Position | 11.58N, 55.02W - Grid EE 8626 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 24 (1 dead and 23 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Brazil - New York | ||
| Cargo | General cargo | ||
| History | On 10 Jun, 1942, picked up 31 survivors of the L.A. Christensen, which was torpedoed and sunk by U-129 (Witt) that day. They were landed on Bermuda two days later. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 20.00 hours on 29 Jul, 1942, the Bill (Master Christian Hartvig Evensen) was torpedoed by U-155. The Brazilian mess boy was killed and the ship sank within four minutes. The master was ordered to come on board U-155, which took off after the crew in the lifeboats had been given the course for Barbados. He was later taken to a hospital in Rennes where he died of heart trouble on 27 Nov, 1942. The three lifeboats were separated but all reached land near Trinidad on the 2, 10 and 15 August. | ||
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