Stalingrad
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| Name | Stalingrad | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3.559 tons | ||
| Completed | 1933 - Zavod No 189 (Ordzhonikidze), Leningrad | ||
| Owner | Glavnoe Upravlenie Severnogo Morskogo Puti (GUSMP) | ||
| Homeport | Vladivostok | ||
| Date of attack | 13 Sep, 1942 | Nationality:  Soviet | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-408 (Reinhard von Hymmen) | ||
| Position | 75.52N, 07.55E - Grid AB 2569 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 87 (21 dead and 66 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | PQ-18 | ||
| Route | Tyne - Reykjavik - North Russia | ||
| Cargo | Explosives | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 09.52 hours on 13 Sep, 1942, U-408 fired a spread of three torpedoes at the convoy PQ-18 about 100 miles southwest of Spitsbergen and observed a hit after 5 minutes 27 seconds on the Stalingrad, accompanied by a column of fire and a boiler explosion. The other two torpedoes missed, but one of them hit the Oliver Ellsworth which had to steer hard left to avoid the torpedoed ship. The Stalingrad was hit amidships on starboard side at the coal bunker and sank in 3 minutes 48 seconds. The crew members and passengers had to abandon ship in the port lifeboats because the others on starboard had been destroyed by the explosion, but one of the boats capsized when reaching the water. | ||
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