Portelet
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| Name | Portelet | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1,064 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol | ||
| Owner | Onesimus Dorey & Sons Ltd, Guernsey, Channel Islands | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Feb 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-59 (Harald Jürst) | ||
| Position | 52.40N, 02.13E - Grid AN 8442 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 11 (2 dead and 9 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Ipswich - Sunderland | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed in February 1918 as Lochee for Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co Ltd, Dundee. 1936 renamed Portelet for Onesimus Dorey & Sons Ltd, Guernsey. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 20.40 hours on 2 Feb, 1940, the unescorted Portelet (Master Alexander Welsh) was hit in the stern by one torpedo from U-59 and sank less than one mile southwest by west of Smith´s Knoll Lightship. Two crew members were lost. The master and eight crew members were picked up by the Finnish steam merchant Oscar Midling and landed at Immingham on 4 February. | ||
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