Who Sank It?

[Sailor Steve]

Motor Tanker RFA Sveve, a Swedish Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel, was hit by one torpedo from U-96 (Hans-Jürgen Hellriegel), on September 10, 1942. The hit was in a main storage tank, and caused a tremendous explosion.

Apparently thinking the ship had sunk, U-96 departed the scene. Sveve's crew abandoned ship and were picked up shortly thereafter by the corvette HMCS Sherbrooke. The tanker was not sinking, so Sherbrooke put 15 4" rounds into her. When that didn't work four of Sveve's crew and four of Sherbrooke's crew boarded the striken tanker and opened the seacocks, which finally mader her sink.

So, who gets the credit for sinking Sveve?
http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2138.html

[timmy41]

normally the credit for the kill of a tank or an aircraft would go to who made it combat ineffective. so if the torpedo made the ship unable to continue on its mission, then id say 96 gets credit.

[Sailor Steve]

I agree. Obviously the u-boat gets credit for destroying the ship unless it gets towed to port and repaird.

I wasn't really looking for an answer; I was just using it as an excuse to post another interesting story I came across. My fault for not being more specific. Sorry about that. :oops:

[Jimbuna]

If I didn't know you I'd be asking if you'd been drinking :DL

[Bronzewing]

Since it's Sweedish, and hence neutral, who's going to WANT to claim credit for sinking it?

[McHibbins]

.... so if the torpedo made the ship unable to continue on its mission, then id say 96 gets credit.

He only gets the credit for damaging her. For BdU only sunken ships are counting.

http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/806.html

This ship here was first damaged by Prien. Kretschmer fired the last torpedo (days later I think) on this abandoned hulk and get the credit for her ´cause he finally sank her.