Mardinian
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| Name | Mardinian | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.434 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - S.P. Austin & Son Ltd, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 9 Sep, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-28 (Günter Kuhnke) | ||
| Position | 56.37N, 09W - Grid AM 0294 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 38 (6 dead and 32 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-2 | ||
| Route | Trinidad - Sydney - Methil - London | ||
| Cargo | 3500 tons of pitch | ||
| History | Launched as War Almond, completed in August 1919 as Mardinian for Ellerman Lines Ltd, Liverpool. 1937 transferred to Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 04.47 hours on 9 Sep, 1940, the Mardinian (Master Joseph Every) in convoy SC-2 was torpedoed by U-28 and sank after 30 minutes about 100 miles north-northwest of Bloody Foreland. Six crew members were lost. The master, 19 crew members and one gunner were picked up by the British armed trawler HMS Apollo and landed at Belfast. Ten crew members landed at Leverburgh, South Uist and one crew member was rescued by the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Aurania (F 28) (Capt J.W. Whitehorn). | ||
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