Stentor
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| Name | Stentor | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 6,148 tons | ||
| Completed | 1926 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee | ||
| Owner | Alfred Holt & Co, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 27 Oct 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-509 (Werner Witte) | ||
| Position | 29.13N, 20.53W - Grid DH 7531 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 251 (44 dead and 207 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SL-125 | ||
| Route | Lagos - Freetown - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 6000 tons of West African produce | ||
| History | Completed in May 1926 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 22.33 and 22.38 hours on 27 Oct, 1942, U-509 fired torpedoes at the convoy SL-125 northwest of the Canary Islands and hit the Pacific Star and Stentor. The Stentor (Master William Williams) was the ship of the Vice-Commodore (Capt Richard Hart Garstin, CBE, RNR) and was carrying 125 passengers, including 26 army personnel, 11 nursing sisters and six naval staff members. The master, the Vice-Commodore, 20 crew members, three army personnel, 4 nurses and 15 passengers were lost. 93 crew members, seven gunners and 107 passengers were picked up by HMS Woodruff (K 53) (A/LtCdr F.H. Gray, RNR) and landed at Milford Haven, but on the way 100 survivors were transferred to HMS Ramsey (G 60) (LtCdr R.B. Stannard, VC, RNR) and landed at Liverpool. | ||
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