Thistleglen
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Thistleglen | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.748 tons | ||
| Completed | 1929 - Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Allan, Black & Co, Sunderland | ||
| Homeport | Sunderland | ||
| Date of attack | 10 Sep, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-85 (Eberhard Greger) | ||
| Position | 61.59N, 39.46W - Grid AD 6628 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 49 (3 dead and 46 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-42 | ||
| Route | New York - Sydney (30 Aug) - Glasgow | ||
| Cargo | 2400 tons of pig iron and 5200 tons of steel | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 16.42 hours on 10 Sep, 1941, U-85 fired a spread of two torpedoes at a ship in the convoy SC-42 northeast of Cape Farewell and reported one ship sunk and another probably damaged after observing one hit and hearing a second detonation. However, only Thistleglen (Master Gordon Frederick Dodson), the ship of the vice-commodore, was hit by one torpedo and sank later. Three crew members were lost. The master, 39 crew members and six gunners abandoned ship in three lifeboats and two rafts and were picked up after about one hour by the Lorient, a straggler from the same convoy and landed at Belfast. | ||
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