Signe
| Name | Signe | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1,540 tons | ||
| Completed | 1882 - W. Gray & Co, West Hartlepool | ||
| Owner | Arvid Abrahamsson, Mariehamn | ||
| Homeport | Mariehamn | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Apr 1940 | Nationality:  Finnish | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-38 (Heinrich Liebe) | ||
| Position | Grid AN 2671 - See estimated map location (58.52N01.31W) * | ||
| Complement | 19 (19 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | HN-23A (straggler) | ||
| Route | Gothenburg - Bergen (30 Mar) - Burntisland | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed as Storra Lee. 1895 renamed Edith, 1920 renamed Glan and 1922 renamed Signe. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.21 hours on 2 Apr, 1940, U-38 fired a torpedo on a ship at the end of a small convoy and observed a dense cloud of smoke and vapour. The Signe (Master Bengt Mattsson) was reported missing after falling 5 miles behind the convoy HN-23A in the evening of 1 April. HMS Sikh (F 82) (Cdr J.A. Giffard, RN), escorting the convoy, reported an explosion at the time of the U-boat attack and searched the area behind the convoy, but found nothing. On 4 April, the body of a crew member was found on a raft by the British trawler Good Shepherd northeast of Fair Island. | ||
* Estimated position shown here is based on positions of losses in a roughly the same German grid code. It may be a bit off but should give a good idea as to where the attack took place.
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