Gairsoppa
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Gairsoppa | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.237 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Feb, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-101 (Ernst Mengersen) | ||
| Position | 50.00N, 14.00W - Grid BE 3437 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 85 (84 dead and 1 survivor). | ||
| Convoy | SL-64 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Calcutta - Freetown (30 Jan) - London | ||
| Cargo | 2600 tons of pig iron, 1765 tons of tea, 2369 tons of general cargo and £600.000 of silver ingots | ||
| History | Launched as War Roebuck, completed October 1919 as Gairsoppa | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.08 hours on 17 Feb, 1941, the Gairsoppa (Master Gerald Hyland), a straggler from convoy SL-64, was torpedoed and sunk by U-101 about 300 miles southwest of Galway. The master, 81 crew members and two gunners were lost. | ||
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