Languedoc
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| Name | Languedoc | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 9.512 tons | ||
| Completed | 1937 - Burmeister & Wain´s Maskin & Skibsbyggeri A/S, Copenhagen | ||
| Owner | John I. Jacobs & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-48 (Heinrich Bleichrodt) | ||
| Position | 59.14N, 17.51W - Grid AL 3388 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 39 (0 dead and 39 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-7 | ||
| Route | Trinidad - Sydney (5 Oct) - Clyde | ||
| Cargo | 13.700 tons of fuel oil | ||
| History | Built as Actor, 1938 renamed French Languedoc for Société Française de Transports Pétrolièrs (SFTP), Paris. 1940 seized by Britain and transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 05.53 hours on 17 Oct, 1940, U-48 fired three torpedoes at three ships in the convoy SC-7 about 160 miles northwest of Rockall and reported two ships sunk and another damaged. In fact, only the Languedoc and Scoresby were hit by one torpedo each and sank. The master and 38 crew members from the Languedoc (Master John Thomson) were picked up by the HMS Bluebell (K 80) (LtCdr Robert E. Sherwood) after an inspection revealed that the tanker was beyond salvage and was scuttled with gunfire by the corvette. The survivors were landed at Gourock on 20 October. | ||
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