Seaforth
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| Name | Seaforth | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,459 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee | ||
| Owner | Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 18 Feb 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-103 ( Viktor Schütze) | ||
| Position | 58.48N, 18.17W - Grid AL 3488 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 59 (59 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Monrovia, Liberia - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | West African produce | ||
| History | Completed in February 1939 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 21.33 hours on 18 Feb, 1941, the unescorted Seaforth (Master Walter Minns) was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-103 south of Iceland and sank quickly after being hit in the stern by a coup de grāce at 21.50 hours. The ship had been spotted in heavy seas at 13.55 hours and missed by a first torpedo at 21.30 hours. The U-boat observed that lifeboats were launched after the first hit, but the master, 46 crew members, two gunners and ten passengers were lost. | ||
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