Shillong
| Name | Shillong | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.529 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - A. Stephen & Sons Ltd, Linthouse, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | P. & O. Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 5 Apr, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-630 (Werner Winkler) | ||
| Position | 57.10N, 35.30W - Grid AK 0114 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 78 (71 dead and 7 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-231 | ||
| Route | Port Lincoln, South Australia - New York (25 Mar) - Belfast Lough - Swansea | ||
| Cargo | 4000 tons of zinc concentrates and 3000 tons of grain and general cargo | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | In the late evening on 4 Apr, 1943, U-635 (Eckelmann) attacked the convoy HX-231 in grid AK 0117 and reported two ships with 13.000 tons sunk. At 01.58 hours on 5 April, U-630 also attacked two ships from the same convoy southeast of Cape Farewell, heard two detonations and sinking noises and reported one ship sunk and another probably sunk. The ships were Shillong and Waroonga, which had both been damaged in the attack of U-635 earlier. The master, 67 crew members and three gunners from the Shillong (Master James Harry Hollow) were lost. Apprentice David Clowe, one crew member and five gunners in a lifeboat were picked up after eight days by the British rescue ship Zamalek (Master Owen Charles Morris DSO) and landed at Halifax on 21 April. | ||
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