Eibergen
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| Name | Eibergen | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.801 tons | ||
| Completed | 1914 - William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Zuid Hollandsche Scheepvaart Mij NV, Rotterdam | ||
| Homeport | Rotterdam | ||
| Date of attack | 3 Jun, 1941 | Nationality:  Dutch | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-75 (Helmuth Ringelmann) | ||
| Position | 48.02N, 25.06W - Grid BD 6622 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 39 (4 dead and 35 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OB-327 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Newcastle - West Africa | ||
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| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | In the afternoon of 2 Jun, 1941, U-75 spotted the unescorted Eibergen (Master R. Hilbrandie) which had been in the dispersed convoy OB-327 and missed her that evening with one torpedo. A short time later, U-75 fired two torpedoes, but they also missed. At 03.45 hours on 3 June, the Eibergen was struck by the fourth torpedo about 600 miles north of the Azores and was later hit by a coup de grāce, causing her to sink within one minute. The victim could be identified from the distress signal sent by the Eibergen. The second engineer J. Holdermans and the donkeyman A. Rombeek must have been killed by the first explosion and two British gunners failed to leave the ship. The remaining crew members were picked up from lifeboats by a British destroyer and were later transferred to a British cruiser, which brought them to Gourouck. | ||
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