Pecten
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Pecten | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 7,468 tons | ||
| Completed | 1927 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow | ||
| Owner | Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 25 Aug 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-57 (Erich Topp) | ||
| Position | 56.22N, 07.55W - Grid AM 5313 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 57 (49 dead and 8 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-65B (straggler) | ||
| Route | Trinidad - Clyde | ||
| Cargo | 9546 tons of Admiralty fuel oil | ||
| History | Completed in May 1927 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 19.48 hours on 25 Aug, 1940, U-57 fired a spread of two torpedoes at a group of stragglers from the convoy HX-65B and hit the Pecten (Master Herbert Edward Dale) twice, which sank about 75 miles north of Tory Island. The master and 48 crew members were lost. Eight crew members were picked up by the British steam merchant Torr Head, transferred to the British armed trawler HMS Robina and landed at Belfast. | ||
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