Bold Venture
The Bold Venture under her former name Alssund. Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Bold Venture | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3,222 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - NV Scheepswerf Voorheen Jan Smit Czn, Alblasserdam | ||
| Owner | Waterman Steamship Co, Mobile AL | ||
| Homeport | Panama | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Oct 1941 | Nationality:  Panaman | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-553 (Karl Thurmann) | ||
| Position | 56.10N, 24.30W - Grid AL 1922 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 34 (17 dead and 17 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-48 | ||
| Route | Baltimore - Sydney - Liverpool - Glasgow | ||
| Cargo | 2451 tons of cotton, 1007 tons of iron and steel, 1116 tons of copper and 64 tons of wood | ||
| History | Completed in November 1920 as Danish Sierra Leone for M. Nissen, Copenhagen. 1929 renamed Alssund for T.C. Christensen, Copenhagen. 1941 seized by the US, registered in Panama as Bold Venture by the US Maritime Commission and operated by Waterman Steamship Co. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.07 hours on 17 Oct, 1941, the Bold Venture in station #94 of convoy SC-48 was hit on the starboard side by one torpedo from U-553 and sank within 10 minutes. The survivors were picked up after two hours by HMCS Wetaskiwin (K 175) (LtCdr G.S. Windeyer, RCN) and landed in Reykjavik. | ||
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