Ashby
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Ashby | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.868 tons | ||
| Completed | 1927 - Cowpen Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Blyth | ||
| Owner | Sir R. Ropner & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool | ||
| Homeport | West Hartlepool | ||
| Date of attack | 30 Nov, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-43 (Wolfgang Lüth) | ||
| Position | 36.54N, 29.51W - Grid CE 8234 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 50 (17 dead and 33 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OS-12 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Middlesbrough - Freetown - Pepel | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 19.26 hours on 30 Nov, 1941, the Ashby (Master Tom Valentine Frank OBE), a straggler from convoy OS-12, was torpedoed and sunk by U-43 170 miles south-southeast of Flores, Azores. The master, eleven crew members and five gunners were lost. 28 crew members and five gunners landed at Fayal, embarked on the Portuguese destroyer Lima (D 333), transferred and were brought to Lisbon by the Portuguese merchant Carvalho Araujo. | ||
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