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Inger Toft

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NameInger Toft
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage2.190 tons
Completed1920 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland 
OwnerChine Shipping Co Ltd, Swansea 
HomeportLondon 
Date of attack16 Mar, 1945Nationality:      British
 
FateSunk by U-722 (Hans Reimers)
Position57.25N, 06.52W - Grid AM 3796
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Complement30 (0 dead and 30 survivors).
ConvoyRU-156 
RouteReykjavik - London 
Cargo885 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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