Vapper
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| Name | Vapper | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4,543 tons | ||
| Completed | 1913 - Ropner & Sons Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees | ||
| Owner | A/S Tallinna Laevaühisus, Tallinn | ||
| Homeport | Tallinn | ||
| Date of attack | 6 Jul 1940 | Nationality:  Estonian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-34 (Wilhelm Rollmann) | ||
| Position | 49.30N, 09.15W - Grid BF 1824 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 33 (1 dead and 32 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Cardiff - Buenos Aires | ||
| Cargo | Coal | ||
| History | Completed in October 1913 as British Seapool for Pool Shipping Co Ltd (Ropner), West Hartlepool. 1936 renamed Pilcot for McCowen & Gross Ltd, London. 1939 sold to Estonia and renamed Vapper. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 10.58 hours on 6 Jul, 1940, the unescorted Vapper (Master O. Laas) was hit underneath the bridge by one G7e torpedo from U-34 south of Cape Clear. After the crew abandoned ship in two lifeboats, the U-boat fired at 11.15 hours a G7a coup de grāce that hit in the engine room and caused the ship to break in two and sink in less than a minute. The sinking had been observed by U-99 (Kretschmer), which had chased this ship for 90 minutes and was just about to attack herself when it was torpedoed by the other U-boat. | ||
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