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Originally Posted by martes86
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Originally Posted by pampanito
OPORTO - Liverpool/Sevilla - Sulphate copper and seeds - 43 lost (4 survivors)
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From uboat.net:
Name: Oporto
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage: 2.352 tons
Completed: 1928 - Ramage & Ferguson Ltd, Leith
Owner: Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool
Homeport: Liverpool
Date of attack: 13 Mar, 1943 Nationality: British
Fate: Sunk by U-107 (Harald Gelhaus)
Position: 42.45N, 13.31W - Grid CG 1218
- See location on a map -
Complement: 47 (43 dead and 4 survivors).
Convoy: OS-44
Route: Liverpool - Seville
Cargo: 1500 tons of sulphate of copper, 413 tons of seed, potatoes and mail
History:
Notes on loss: At 05.30 hours on 13 Mar, 1943, U-107 attacked the convoy OS-44 190 miles west of Cape Finisterre and reported hits on three ships. In fact, four ships were hit, the Clan Alpine, Marcella, Oporto and Sembilangan.
The master, 35 crew members and seven gunners from the Oporto (Master Fred Bird) were lost. Four crew members were picked up by the HMS Spiraea (K 08) (Lt A.H. Pierce OBE), transferred to HMS Gentian (K 90) (LtCdr H.H. Russell DSC) and landed at Gibraltar.