Ile de Batz
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| Name | Ile de Batz | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.755 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Skinner & Eddy Corp, Seattle WA | ||
| Owner | Andrew Weir & Co, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Mar, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-68 (Karl-Friedrich Merten) | ||
| Position | 04.04N, 08.04W - Grid EU 8511 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 43 (4 dead and 39 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Rangoon - Capetown (4 Mar) - Freetown - UK | ||
| Cargo | 6605 tons of general cargo and rice | ||
| History | Built as American West Hobomac for Lykes Bros SS Co Inc, New Orleans. 1940 given to France and renamed Īle de Batz, later that year taken over by Britain and transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 06.35 hours on 17 Mar, 1942, the unescorted Ile de Batz (Master A.J. Watts) was torpedoed and damaged by U-68 28 miles southwest of Cape Palmas. The ship was sunk after 07.51 hours with 33 high explosive rounds of 10.5cm gunfire. Four crew members were lost. The master, 34 crew members and four gunners landed at Cape Palmas and were brought to Freetown by the HMCS Weyburn (K 173) (Lt Thomas M.H. Golby). | ||
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