Gertrude
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| Name | Gertrude | ||
| Type: | Motor fishing vessel | ||
| Tonnage | 16 tons | ||
| Completed | 1902 - Wit, North Carolina | ||
| Owner | Miami Fish & Ice Co, Miami FL | ||
| Homeport | Miami | ||
| Date of attack | 16 Jul, 1942 | Nationality:  American | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-166 (Hans-Günther Kuhlmann) | ||
| Position | 23.32N, 82.00W - Grid DM 34 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 3 (0 dead and 3 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Miami, Florida - Havana, Cuba | ||
| Cargo | 20 tons of onions | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | About 09.00 hours on 16 Jul, 1942, the unescorted and unarmed Gertrude (Master Walter Broward Crosland) was ordered to stop by U-166 about 30 miles northeast of Havana, Cuba. The crew was asked to abandon ship and they left immediately in a 14-foot motorboat. U-166 then sank the trawler by gunfire or by a scuttling charge. The motorboat with the crew ran out of fuel before reaching shore and drifted for 78 hours before being spotted by a Civil Air Patrol aircraft about three miles south of Alligator Reef Lighthouse. A boat out of Whale Harbor brought the three men ashore. | ||
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