Ilorin
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| Name | Ilorin | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 815 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Montrose Shipbuilding Co, Montrose | ||
| Owner | Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Sep, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-125 (Ulrich Folkers) | ||
| Position | 05N, 01W - Grid EV 8123 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 37 (33 dead and 4 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Port Harcourt - Takoradi | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as Marion Merrett, renamed Kirkwynd, renamed Smerdis, renamed Ilorin | ||
| Notes on loss | At 11.06 hours on 1 Sep, 1942, the unescorted Ilorin (Master Charles Lewis Bott) was torpedoed and sunk by U-125 off Legu, Gold Coast. The master and 32 crew members were lost. Four crew members were saved. | ||
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