Saint Malô
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| Name | Saint Malô | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.779 tons | ||
| Completed | 1917 - Kawasaki Dockyard Co Ltd, Kobe | ||
| Owner | Merchant Marine Ltd, Ottawa | ||
| Homeport | Ottawa | ||
| Date of attack | 12 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  Canadian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-101 (Fritz Frauenheim) | ||
| Position | 57.58N, 16.32W - Grid AM 4214 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 44 (28 dead and 16 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-77 (straggler) | ||
| Route | St. John, New Brunswick - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 7274 tons of general cargo, including steel and grain | ||
| History | Completed in September 1917 as British War Wolf for Shipping Controller, managed by Furness Withy & Co. 1919 sold to France and renamed Commandant Mages for Messageries Maritimes, Dunkirk. 1938 sold to Compagnie France-Navigation, Dunkirk and renamed Saint Malô. In August 1940, she was seized by Canada at Halifax. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 23.25 hours on 12 Oct, 1940, the Saint Malô, a straggler from convoy HX-77, was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-101, broke in two and sank after 30 minutes. 13 Canadian and three French crew members abandoned ship in one lifeboat and some rafts. The U-boat fished the 17 years old ship´s boy out of the water and transferred him to the boat after questioning. Two days later, the boat was taken in tow by a lifeboat from Port Gisborne, which had been sunk by U-48 (Bleichrodt) on 11 October. The survivors transferred into the other lifeboat on 21 October and were all rescued by HMS Salvonia (W 43) (Lt G.M.M. Robinson) on the following day. | ||
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