Crux
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| Name | Crux | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3.828 tons | ||
| Completed | 1923 - Burmeister & Wain´s Maskin & Skibsbyggeri A/S, Copenhagen | ||
| Owner | Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskap A/S, Bergen | ||
| Homeport | Bergen | ||
| Date of attack | 26 Jun, 1940 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by UA (Hans Cohausz) | ||
| Position | 36.53N, 14W - Grid CG 7168 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 30 (0 dead and 30 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Cardiff - Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Cargo | |||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 02.28 hours on 26 Jun, 1940, the unescorted Crux (Master Einar Hansen) was torpedoed and sunk by UA. Twenty minutes after the crew left the ship in lifeboats, a southbound ship passed by very near, but did not see them in the dark. They did not use their flashes to make themselves known, because they thought that the U-boat was still near them. They were picked up by the British steam merchant Brutus the following day. | ||
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