Cheyenne
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| Name | Cheyenne | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 8.825 tons | ||
| Completed | 1930 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 15 Sep, 1939 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-53 (Ernst-Günter Heinicke) | ||
| Position | 50.20N, 13.30W - Grid BE 3261 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 43 (6 dead and 37 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Aruba - Swansea | ||
| Cargo | 12.600 tons of benzine | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 15.44 hours on 15 Sep, 1939, the unescorted Cheyenne (Master Hugh Kerr) was torpedoed and damaged by gunfire by U-53 southwest of Ireland. Distress signals from the tanker led a British destroyer and the Norwegian motor merchant Ida Bakke (Master Anton Zakariassen) to the scene. The destroyer chased away the U-boat and later sank the abandoned tanker, which broke in two after being torpedoed. Six crew members were lost. The master and 36 crew members were picked up by the Norwegian ship and subsequently landed at Baltimore, Co. Cork near Fastnet Light. The previous day, the Ida Bakke had rescued all survivors of the British Influence, which had been sunk by U-29. | ||
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