Ashby
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Ashby | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4,868 tons | ||
| Completed | 1927 - Cowpen Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Blyth | ||
| Owner | Sir R. Ropner & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool | ||
| Homeport | West Hartlepool | ||
| Date of attack | 30 Nov 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-43 (Wolfgang Lüth) | ||
| Position | 36.54N, 29.51W - Grid CE 8234 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 50 (17 dead and 33 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OS-12 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Middlesbrough - Freetown - Pepel | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed in December 1927 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 19.26 hours on 30 Nov, 1941, the Ashby (Master Tom Valentine Frank, OBE), a straggler from convoy OS-12, was hit aft by one of two G7e torpedoes from U-43 and sank by the stern within 4 minutes 170 miles south-southeast of Flores, Azores. The master, eleven crew members and five gunners were lost. 28 crew members and five gunners landed at Fayal, embarked on the Portuguese destroyer Lima (D 333), transferred and were brought to Lisbon by the Portuguese merchant Carvalho Araujo. | ||
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