Vestvard
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| Name | Vestvard | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.319 tons | ||
| Completed | 1925 - AG Neptun, Rostock | ||
| Owner | Lauritz Kloster, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 27 Sep, 1940 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-31 (Wilfried Prellberg) | ||
| Position | Grid AL 6261 - See estimated map location (55.29N18.01W) * | ||
| Complement | 31 (1 dead and 30 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OB-218 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Manchester - Montreal | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 11.13 hours on 27 Sep, 1940, the Vestvard (Master O.N. Bråstad), dispersed the day before from convoy OB-218, was hit on the port side near #3 hatch by one torpedo from U-31 about 300 miles west of Ireland and sank shortly after being struck at #4 hatch by a coup de grāce at 11.23 hours. A first torpedo fired at 11.04 hours had passed underneath the ship. Between the two hits the crew had abandoned ship in two lifeboats, but one of them was hit and destroyed by debris from the second explosion. The seven occupants were later picked up by the other boat along with other men that were forced to jump overboard from the heavily listing ship but one crew member drowned in the suction of the sinking ship. On 1 October, the survivors made landfall near Slane Head Light, from where four men were admitted to a hospital in Galway. | ||
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* Estimated position shown here is based on positions of losses in a roughly the same German grid code. It may be a bit off but should give a good idea as to where the attack took place.
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