Grado
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| Name | Grado | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3.082 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - E. Finch & Co (1916) Ltd, Chepstow, Monmouthshire | ||
| Owner | Hans Fr. Grann, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 11 May, 1943 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-402 (Baron Siegfried von Forstner) | ||
| Position | 40.30N, 32.30W - Grid CE 1547 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 36 (0 dead and 36 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-129 | ||
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| Cargo | 1000 tons of steel and 3000 tons of lumber | ||
| History | December 1918 completed as British War Forest for Morel Ltd; 1920 sold France and renamed Albergallus for Soc. Maritime et Commerciale du Pacifique, Bordeaux; 1925 renamed Thermidor for Cie Nationale de Nav., Bordeaux; 1926 renamed Greek Andreas Gerakis for N.Gerakis, Cephalonia; 1927 renamed French Louis Mercier for Union Miniere et Maritime, Rouen; 1930 sold to Union Industrielle et Maritime, Bordeaux; 1937 renamed Norwegian Grado. In June 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, the Grado was captured by a Spanish vessel and taken to Ceuta, where she was kept for three weeks.
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| Notes on loss | At 20.00 hours on 11 May 1943, U-402 attacked the convoy SC-129 and claimed two ships with 9000 grt. The two ships sunk were the Antigone and Grado. All hands abandoned Grado (Master Theodor Jensen), 16 of them were picked up by the British rescue ship Melrose Abbey and the remaining men were picked up by the escort vessels. | ||
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