Inger Toft
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| Name | Inger Toft | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.190 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Chine Shipping Co Ltd, Swansea | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 16 Mar, 1945 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-722 (Hans Reimers) | ||
| Position | 57.25N, 06.52W - Grid AM 3796 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 30 (0 dead and 30 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | RU-156 | ||
| Route | Reykjavik - London | ||
| Cargo | 885 tons of herring meal and cod liver oil in drums | ||
| History | Built as Langford, 1922 renamed Phyllis Seed, 1923 renamed Van Dyck, 1925 renamed Elphinston, 1936 renamed Danish Inger Toft for Jens Toft, Copenhagen. 1940 taken over by Britain and transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 09.20 hours on 16 Mar, 1945, the Inger Toft (Master N.M. Brinck) in convoy RU-156 was torpedoed and sunk by U-722 3 miles 270° from Neirst Point, Isle of Skye. The master and 29 crew members were picked up by the British armed trawler HMS Grenadier (Lt A.G. Day) and landed at Loch Ewe. | ||
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