Tweed
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| Name | Tweed | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.697 tons | ||
| Completed | 1926 - Dunlop, Bremner & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Cornelis A. Lensen, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Apr, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-124 (Georg-Wilhelm Schulz) | ||
| Position | 07.43N, 15.11W - Grid ET 2672 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 31 (3 dead and 28 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OG-57 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Liverpool - Pepel | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as Quercus, 1927 renamed Tweed | ||
| Notes on loss | At 12.25 hours on 8 Apr, 1941, the Tweed (Master Henry Fellingham), dispersed from convoy OG-57, was hit underneath the bridge by one torpedo from U-124 southwest of Freetown. The ship was missed by a second torpedo two minutes later because she turned, but sank by the bow at 12.30 hours. Three crew members were lost. The U-boat surfaced after the attack, approached a capsized lifeboat and took the ten men on it aboard for questioning. While the boat was rightened, the German doctor took care of an injured crew member and they were all allowed to reboard the lifeboat. The master, 25 crew members and two gunners in two lifeboats made landfall at Conarky, French Guiana. | ||
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