Serbino
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| Name | Serbino | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4,099 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Ramage & Ferguson Ltd, Leith | ||
| Owner | Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 21 Oct 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-82 (Siegfried Rollmann) | ||
| Position | 51.10N, 19.20W - Grid AL 9841 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 65 (14 dead and 51 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SL-89 | ||
| Route | Mombasa - Freetown (5 Oct) - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 3500 tons of general cargo, including 1355 tons of sisal | ||
| History | Completed in May 1919 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 22.03 hours on 21 Oct, 1941, the Serbino (Master Lawrence Edwin Brooks) in convoy SL-89 was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-82 and sank west of Fastnet. 14 crew members were lost. The master and 50 crew members were picked up by HMS Asphodel (K 56) (LtCdr K.W. Stewart, RN (retired)) and landed at Gourock. | ||
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