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Pegasus

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NamePegasus
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage5.762 tons
Completed1920 - Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Haverton Hill, Middlesbrough 
OwnerG.N. Louloudis, Paris 
HomeportAndros 
Date of attack15 Sep, 1941Nationality:      Greek
 
FateSunk by U-94 (Otto Ites)
Position54.40N, 29.50W - Grid AK 6735
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Complement29 (16 dead and 13 survivors).
ConvoyON-14 (straggler)
RouteUK - Trinidad 
Cargo5500 tons of general cargo and military stores and a motor launch on deck 
History Built as Benares, 1934 sold to Sweden and renamed Lappland for Svenska Orient Linien (Axel Broström & Son), Gothenburg, 1939 sold to Greece and renamed Pegasus
Notes on loss At 20.38 hours on 15 Sep, 1941, the Pegasus, a straggler from convoy ON-14, was hit by one stern torpedo from U-94 and stopped. A Swedish ship stopped near the torpedoed vessel and rescued the survivors, when the U-boat fired a coup de grâce at 21.28 hours which broke the ship in two. Parts of the wreck remained afloat until they were shelled and sunk by a Allied warship in 54°54N/30°32W. 


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