Oakcrest
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| Name | Oakcrest | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,407 tons | ||
| Completed | 1929 - R. Duncan & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Crest Shipping Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 23 Nov 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-123 (Karl-Heinz Moehle) | ||
| Position | 53N, 17W - Grid AL 3981 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 41 (35 dead and 6 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OB-244 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Liverpool - New York | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as Yugoslavian Korana for Prekomorska Plovidba DD, Zagreb. 1940 taken over by Britain and renamed Oakcrest by Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 04.16 hours on 23 Nov, 1940, the Oakcrest (Master Samuel George Dyer), a straggler from convoy OB-244, was hit underneath the bridge by one torpedo from U-123 and sank within six minutes about 250 miles west of Rockall. The master and 34 crew members were lost. Six survivors landed on Barra Island, Hebrides. | ||
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