Empire Wildebeeste
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| Name | Empire Wildebeeste | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,631 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Skinner & Eddy Corp, Seattle WA | ||
| Owner | George Nisbet & Co, Glasgow | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 24 Jan 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-106 (Hermann Rasch) | ||
| Position | 39.30N, 59.54W - Grid CB 6192 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 31 (9 dead and 22 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | ON-53 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Hull - Loch Ewe - Halifax - Baltimore | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as American West Ekonk for US Shipping Board, Seattle; 1918/19 part of the US Navy in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service; 1933 sold to Lykes Bros SS Co Inc, New Orleans. 1941 given to Britain and renamed Empire Wildebeeste by Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 06.53 hours on 24 Jan, 1942, the Empire Wildebeeste (Master Hugh Cameron Stewart), dispersed from convoy ON-53, was torpedoed and sunk by U-106 east of New York. Eight crew members and one gunner were lost. The master, 18 crew members and three gunners were picked up by the American destroyer USS Lang (DD 399) (LtCdr E.A. Seay) and landed at Bermuda. | ||
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