Kentar
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| Name | Kentar | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.878 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges., Flensburg | ||
| Owner | NV Stoomvaart Mij “Nederland“, Amsterdam | ||
| Homeport | Amsterdam | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Aug, 1942 | Nationality:  Dutch | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-155 (Adolf Cornelius Piening) | ||
| Position | 11.52N, 57.30W - Grid EE 8639 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 79 (17 dead and 62 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Bombay (7 Jun) - Durban - Trinidad - St. John, New Brunswick | ||
| Cargo | 1500 tons of manganese ore | ||
| History | Built as Hamburg, 1926 renamed Naumburg for Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hapag), Hamburg. On 10 May 1940, the Naumburg was seized by Netherlands at Sourabaya and renamed Kentar. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 02.20 hours on 1 Aug, 1942, the unescorted Kentar was hit on the port side in the boiler room by one torpedo from U-155 and sank immediately after being hit by a coup de grāce 50 minutes later. The survivors were eventually rescued from whaleboats and rafts, but some men died of exposure. | ||
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