Inverlee
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| Name | Inverlee | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 9.158 tons | ||
| Completed | 1938 - Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack | ||
| Owner | Inver Tankers Ltd (A. Weir & Co), London | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Oct, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-204 (Walter Kell) | ||
| Position | Grid BE - See estimated map location (40.06N19.48W) * | ||
| Complement | 43 (22 dead and 21 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Trinidad - Gibraltar | ||
| Cargo | 13.880 tons of Admiralty fuel oil | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.00 hours on 19 Oct, 1941, the unescorted Inverlee (Master Thomas Edward Alexander) was torpedoed and sunk by U-204 30 miles 240° from Cape Spartel. The master, 20 crew members and one gunner were lost. 17 crew members and four gunners were picked up by the British destroyer leader HMS Duncan (D 99) (LtCdr A.N. Rowell) and the British armed trawlers HMS Lady Hogarth (4.89) (Lt S.G. Barnes) and HMS Haarlem (FY 306) (Lt L.B. Merrick) and landed at Gibraltar. Immediately after this sinking, the 37th Escort Group started an U-boat hunt off Cape Spartel and sank U-204 the same day. | ||
* Estimated position shown here is based on positions of losses in a roughly the same German grid code. It may be a bit off but should give a good idea as to where the attack took place.
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