Lifland
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| Name | Lifland | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.254 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Odense Staalskibsværft ved A.P. Møller, Odense | ||
| Owner | George Nisbet & Co, Glasgow | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 29 Sep, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-610 (Baron Walter von Freyberg-Eisenberg-Allmendingen) | ||
| Position | 56.40N, 30.30W - Grid AL 4244 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 24 (24 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | SC-101 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Pictou, Nova Scotia - Milford Haven | ||
| Cargo | Timber | ||
| History | Built as Danish Lifland for A.N. Petersen & E. Hahn-Petersen, Copenhagen 1940 taken over by Britain and transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 20.58 hours on 29 Sep, 1942, the Lifland (Master Niels Jensen), a straggler from convoy SC-101, was torpedoed by U-610 southeast of Cape Farewell and sunk by a coup de grâce at 21.17 hours. The master and 23 crew members were lost. | ||
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