Strinda
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| Name | Strinda | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 10,973 tons | ||
| Completed | 1937 - Deutsche Werft AG, Betrieb Finkenwärder, Hamburg | ||
| Owner | A/S J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi, Bergen | ||
| Homeport | Bergen | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Aug 1940 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Damaged by U-99 (Otto Kretschmer) | ||
| Position | 55.10N, 17.16W - Grid AL 6628 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | ? men (0 dead and ? survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OB-191 | ||
| Route | Glasgow - Capetown - Abadan | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed in January 1937 Post-war: 1956 sold to Sierra Leone and converted to the ore carrier San Juan Trader (6451 grt) for San Juan Carriers Ltd, Monrovia. Broken up at Split in October 1962. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 02.51 hours on 2 Aug, 1940, U-99 fired a G7e torpedo at the biggest tanker in convoy OB-191 about 300 miles west of Ireland and hit the Strinda (Master Nicolay Jørgen Dahl) amidships on the port side in the #9 wing tank and bunker oil tank. The crew abandoned ship in the lifeboats except the one on port that had been destroyed by the explosion. The master and some men reboarded the ship after four hours and the rest of the crew rejoined later. On 4 August, she arrived at Gourock under her own power and was later repaired at Cardiff. | ||
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