Ships hit by U-boats


Petrovskij

Soviet Steam merchant



Photo courtesy of Paul Johnson Collection

NamePetrovskij
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage3,771 tons
Completed1921 - NV Werf Gusto v/h Firma A.F. Smulders, Schiedam 
OwnerSovtorgflot, Moscow 
HomeportOdessa 
Date of attack27 Aug 1943Nationality:      Soviet
 
FateDamaged by U-354 (Karl-Heinz Herbschleb)
Position75° 15'N, 84° 30'E - Grid AS 2722
Complement? men (? dead and ? survivors).
Convoy
Route 
Cargo 
History Completed in August 1921 as Dutch Ijsseldijk for Solleveld, v.d. Meer & T.H. van Hattum’s Stoomvaart Mij, Rotterdam. 1930 renamed Minnewater for NV Stoomvaart Mij Nederlandsche Lloyd, Rotterdam. 1935 sold to Soviet Union and renamed Petrovskij.

Post-war:
1970 deleted from Lloyds Register. 
Notes on event

At 20.21 hours on 27 Aug 1943, U-354 fired a single torpedo at a Soviet convoy consisting of four merchants and two patrol boats and heard a detonation after 1 minute 55 seconds and two further detonations five minutes after firing a spread of three torpedoes at 20.22 hours. The U-boat saw after the attack only two merchants and one escort and claimed the sinking of two ships. In fact, the Petrovskij was only damaged.

 


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