Posted by Melinda Hefner on September 8, 2007, 10:09 am, in reply to "Re: Contact info"
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You may already have this information, but just in case you don't, I'll give you the link that provided it. http://www.photoship.co.uk/Disasters%20at%20Sea/disastersatsea.html SHIRVAN Baltic Trading Co.; 1925; Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.; 6,017 tons; 411-8x53-4x31-6; 552n.h.p.; triple-expansion engines. The British tanker Shirvan, on a voyage from Bowling to Reykjavik with 7,500 tons of motor spirit, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on November 10th, 1944, about 150 miles S.W. of the Vestmann Islands. Sixteen of her crew and two gunners were lost. From another site (http://www.thamestugs.com/page_1145109498000.html), there is also information about a tug that says: 1944 Departed Reykjavik, Iceland to assist British tanker Shirvan which was part of UK to Reykjavik convoy UR142. Tug and crew never seen again. Records list her as having been sunk by German submarine U300 in position 64.08N 22.38W, along with the Shirvan and another vessel. However German records never claimed her as a U boat victim and it is now thought she may have been overwhelmed by the heavy weather prevalent at the time. One more site, http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship.html?shipID=3375 gives the following information: At 12.07 hours on 10 Nov, 1944, the Shirvan (Master Edward F. Pattenden) from the storm scattered convoy UR-142 was hit by a LUT torpedo from U-300 off Skagi, Iceland and caught fire. The U-boat had fired five minutes earlier a first LUT torpedo that was a tube runner and detonated near the ship after being ejected. At 14.17 hours, a coup de grāce was fired that was first also a tube runner but then hit the tanker after a coup de grāce at 13.36 hours malfunctioned after launching. The Godafoss from the same convoy stopped against orders to pick up survivors from the tanker, but was also torpedoed by the U-boat at 14.59 hours. The master, 15 crew members and two gunners were lost. 20 crew members and seven gunners were picked up by HMS Reward (W 164) and the Norwegian armed trawler HMNoS Honningsvaag (4.277) and landed at Reykjavik. The abandoned wreck of Shirvan was still afloat in the evening and the British tug Empire Wold left Reykjavik to assist the ship, but was reported missing presumed lost by enemy action. No U-boat attack correspond with the loss of the vessel and she probably fell victim to the stormy sea. The tanker foundered the next day in 64°29N/23°04W. Hope this helps!!

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