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Peisander


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NamePeisander
Type:Motor merchant
Tonnage6.225 tons
Completed1925 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee 
OwnerAlfred Holt & Co, Liverpool 
HomeportLiverpool 
Date of attack17 May, 1942Nationality:      British
 
FateSunk by U-653 (Gerhard Feiler)
Position37.24N, 65.38W - Grid CB 7233
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Complement65 (0 dead and 65 survivors).
Convoy 
RouteNewcastle NSW - Panama - Liverpool 
Cargo6590 tons of wheat, 97 tons of tungsten and wool 
History  
Notes on loss At 19.01 hours on 17 May, 1942, the unescorted Peisander (Master Agnus Shaw) was hit by two torpedoes from U-653 and sank at 19.45 hours about 350 miles southeast of Nantucket Island after a coup de grāce at 19.28 hours had hit the ship. The master, 57 crew members, three gunners and four passengers were picked up by the US Coast Guard cutter USS General Greene (WPC-140) and landed at Newport, Rhode Island. 


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