Harpalyce
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| Name | Harpalyce | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,169 tons | ||
| Completed | 1940 - Bartram & Sons Ltd, South Dock, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | J. & C. Harrison Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 25 Aug 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-124 (Georg-Wilhelm Schulz) | ||
| Position | 58.52N, 06.34W - Grid AM 3645 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 46 (42 dead and 4 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-65A | ||
| Route | Baltimore - Halifax - Hull | ||
| Cargo | 8000 tons of steel | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | Between 23.50 and 23.56 hours on 25 Aug, 1940, U-124 fired four torpedoes at four ships in the convoy HX-65A 23 miles north of the Butt of Lewis, Hebrides and reported four steamers sunk. However, the Harpalyce and Fircrest were sunk and the Stakesby was damaged. The Harpalyce (Master William John Rees) was the ship of the convoy commodore Vice-Admiral B.G. Washington, CMG DSO RN and sank very fast after being hit by one torpedo. The master, the commodore, four naval staff members and 36 crew members were lost. Four crew members were picked up by the British armed trawler HMS Fort Dee and landed at Kirkwall, Orkneys. | ||
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