Dalcroy
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| Name | Dalcroy | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4,558 tons | ||
| Completed | 1930 - Scottīs Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Greenock | ||
| Owner | Campbell Brothers & Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | ||
| Homeport | Newcastle | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Nov 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-402 (Siegfried von Forstner) | ||
| Position | 52.30N, 45.30W - Grid AJ 8674 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 49 (0 dead and 49 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-107 | ||
| Route | St. John, New Brunswick - Halifax (27 Oct) - Tyne | ||
| Cargo | 1809 tons of steel and 2044 standards of timber | ||
| History | Completed in March 1930 | ||
| Notes on loss | Between 04.10 and 04.13 hours on 2 Nov, 1942, U-402 fired torpedoes at the convoy SC-107 about 500 miles east of Belle Isle and reported three ships sunk. One hit was observed on a Geraldine Mary type vessel in station #11 of the convoy, but this was possibly a detonation near the ship, while the other torpedoes hit the Dalcroy and Rinos. The master, 40 crew members and eight gunners from the Dalcroy (Master John Phillip Johnson) were picked up by the British rescue ship Stockport (Master Thomas Ernest Fea, OBE) and landed at Reykjavik on 8 November. | ||
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