Cape Race
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| Name | Cape Race | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3,807 tons | ||
| Completed | 1930 - Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Lyle Shipping Co Ltd, Glasgow | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 10 Aug 1942 | Nationality: | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-660 (Götz Baur) | ||
| Position | 56.45N, 22.50W - Grid AL 2913 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 63 (0 dead and 63 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-94 | ||
| Route | Boston, Massachusetts - Sydney (31 Jul) - Manchester | ||
| Cargo | 1230 standards of timber (3979 tons) and 1040 tons of steel | ||
| History | Built as Knight of St. John, 1934 renamed Cape Race
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| Notes on loss | At 12.20 hours on 10 Aug, 1942, U-660 fired a single torpedo, followed one minute later by a spread of two and then another single torpedo at the convoy SC-94 south of Iceland from the starboard side. They heard a detonation after 47 seconds, two more after 1 minute 30 seconds and a fourth after another 50 seconds. At 12.21 hours, U-438 (Franzius) attacked the convoy from the port side and observed a detonation after 2 minutes 30 seconds. The master, 45 crew members, five gunners from the Cape Race (Master James Barnetson) and 12 crew members from the Port Nicholson on repatriation (she had been sunk by U-87 (Berger) on 16 June) were all rescued: 24 survivors by the HMS Nasturtium (K 107) (Lt C.D. Smith DSC) and 39 by the HMS Dianthus (K 95) (LtCdr C.E. Bridgeman) and landed at Liverpool on 14 August. | ||
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