Ringstad
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| Name | Ringstad | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.765 tons | ||
| Completed | 1923 - Deutsche Werft AG, Betrieb Finkenwärder, Hamburg | ||
| Owner | Olav Ringdal, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 24 Jan, 1942 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-333 (Peter-Erich Cremer) | ||
| Position | 45.50N, 51.04W - Grid BC 4700 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 42 (30 dead and 12 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | ON-55 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Cardiff - St.John, New Brunswick | ||
| Cargo | 2598 tons of china clay | ||
| History | On 28 Jan, 1923, launched as Talisman, completed on 10 April for Wilh. Whilhelmsen, Tønsberg. On 3 Nov, 1936, sold to Bruun & von der Lippe´s Rederi A/S, Tønsberg and renamed Vigilant. 1937 sold to Olav Ringdal, Oslo and 1940 renamed Ringstad. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 15.25 hours on 24 Jan, 1942, the Ringstad (Master Jacob K. Knudstad), straggling from convoy ON-55 due to several days of stormy weather, was hit on the starboard side in the foreship by one torpedo from U-333 about 85 miles southeast of Cape Race. All on board abandoned ship in three lifeboats and were questioned by the U-boat that surfaced after the ship sank after 20 minutes by the bow. The Germans offered water and food to the survivors and told them the direction of the nearest land before leaving the area after wishing them good luck. The lifeboats were separated in the stormy and cold weather. Two lifeboats containing 27 crew members and three passengers were never seen again. Only the motor boat of the master that was completely covered in ice was spotted after five days by an aircraft that escorted a convoy and sent the USS Swanson (DD 443) to rescue the master and eleven other survivors in it. The exhausted men were landed at Reykjavik on 5 February. | ||
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