Gunda
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| Name | Gunda | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,241 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding Co, Duluth MN | ||
| Owner | Einar Lange, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Nov 1942 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-181 (Wolfgang Lüth) | ||
| Position | 25.40S, 33.53E - Grid KP 5324 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 46 (38 dead and 8 survivors). | ||
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| Route | Lourenço Marques - Zanzibar | ||
| Cargo | 3134 tons of coal | ||
| History | Completed in July 1919 as Chantier for US Shipping Board (USSB). 1928 sold to Norway and renamed Gunda for Ole Frĝiland, Farsund. 1938 sold to A/S Olymp (Einar Lange), Oslo.
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| Notes on loss | At 21.25 hours on 19 Nov, 1942, the unescorted Gunda (Master Odd Pedersen) was hit in the foreship by one G7a torpedo from U-181 and sank in a few minutes off the coast of East Africa, between Inhaca and Punta da Oro, Mozambique Channel. The Germans tried to question some Asian survivors on rafts, but were not able to understand them. All European officers and 32 Asian crew members were lost. Eight Indian survivors were later rescued from a raft. | ||
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