Nanking
| Name | Nanking | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.931 tons | ||
| Completed | 1924 - Götaverken A/B, Gothenburg | ||
| Owner | A/B Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet, Gothenburg | ||
| Homeport | Gothenburg | ||
| Date of attack | 29 Apr, 1943 | Nationality:  Swedish | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-123 (Horst von Schroeter) | ||
| Position | 05.10N, 11.10W - Grid EU 4787 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 32 (0 dead and 32 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Bombay - Mormugao - Capetown - Takoradi - Freetown - UK | ||
| Cargo | 8500 tons of ore and cotton | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 23.34 hours on 29 Apr, 1943, the Nanking was hit in the foreship by one of two torpedoes fired by U-123 and sank by the bow at 00.13 hours, after being missed by a coup de grâce twelve minutes earlier. | ||
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