Niceto de Larrinaga
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| Name | Niceto de Larrinaga | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,591 tons | ||
| Completed | 1916 - Russell & Co, Port Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Larrinaga & Co Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 22 Sep 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-103 (Werner Winter) | ||
| Position | 27.32N, 24.26W - Grid DG 9922 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 55 (2 dead and 53 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SL-87 | ||
| Route | Lagos - Freetown (14 Sep) - London | ||
| Cargo | 3866 tons palm kernels, 2000 tons manganese ore, 2482 tons groundnuts and 622 tons general cargo | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 23.46 hours on 22 Sep, 1941, U-103 fired four bow torpedoes at the convoy SL-87 southwest of the Canary Islands, turned around and fired two stern torpedoes at 23.47 hours. They observed a ship capsizing after a small explosion and two other ships going down by their sterns after two further explosions. The fourth torpedo was a shallow hit causing a large column of water and the fifth exploded with a blue-green flash. Winter thought that four ships were sunk and another damaged. However, the Edward Blyden and Niceto de Larrinaga were each hit by two torpedoes. Two crew members from the Niceto de Larrinaga (Master Frederick Moulton Milnes) were lost. The master, 43 crew members, five gunners and four passengers (DBS) were rescued. 11 survivors were picked up by HMS Gardenia (K 99) (LtCdr H. Hill) and landed at Azores, while 42 were picked up by HMS Lulworth (Y 60) (LtCdr C. Gwinner) and landed at Londonderry on 4 October. | ||
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