Sidi-Bel-Abbès
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| Name | Sidi-Bel-Abbès | ||
| Type: | Troop transport | ||
| Tonnage | 4.392 tons | ||
| Completed | 1929 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Société Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur SA, Marseilles | ||
| Homeport | Marseilles | ||
| Date of attack | 20 Apr, 1943 | Nationality:  French | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-565 (Wilhelm Franken) | ||
| Position | 35.59N, 01.25W - Grid CH 7682 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 1131 (611 dead and 520 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | UGS-7 | ||
| Route | Casablanca - Oran | ||
| Cargo | Senegalese troops | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 07.52 hours on 20 Apr, 1943, U-565 fired torpedoes at the convoy UGS-7 about 60 miles west of Oran and sank the Sidi-Bel-Abbès in station #82 and Michigan in station #81. The Sidi-Bel-Abbès carried Senegalese soldiers and sank with heavy loss of life. The survivors were picked up British escort vessels, assisted by lifeboats of the other torpedoed ship. | ||
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