Osório
Brazilian Steam merchant
Osório under her former name Lake Elkwater
| Name | Osório | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,730 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse MI | ||
| Owner | Cia de Navegação Lloyd Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Homeport | Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Date of attack | 28 Sep 1942 | Nationality:  Brazilian | |
| Fate | A total loss by U-514 (Hans-Jürgen Auffermann) | ||
| Position | 00.03N, 47.45W - Grid FA 2948 | ||
| Complement | 39 (5 dead and 34 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Belém - New York | ||
| Cargo | |||
| History | Completed in August 1919 as Lake Elkwater for the US Shipping Board (USSB). 1929 renamed Commercial Bostonian for Moore-McCormack Lines Inc, New York. 1940 sold to Brazil and renamed Osório. On 8 Jun, 1942, the Osório rescued eleven survivors from a lifeboat of Robin Moor in 00°16N/37°37W and landed them at Recife, Brazil. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 01.10 hours on 28 Sep, 1942, U-514 attacked a small convoy consisting of two merchant ships escorted by USS Roe (DD 418) off the Amazon estuary about 75 miles north of Salinas and sank the Osório in shallow waters. At 02.15 hours, the U-boat fired a torpedo at the second ship, the Lages, which also sank in shallow waters with only the bow visible in 00°12N/47°55W. The unarmed Ozório (Master Almiro Galdino de Carvalho) sank 25 minutes after being hit by one torpedo. The master and four crew members were lost. Both vessels were sunk in shallow waters and later salvaged, but not repaired until the war ended, thus regarded as total losses. | ||
Location of attack on Osório.
ship damaged.
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