Bill
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| Name | Bill | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,445 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - A/S Moss Værft & Dokk, Moss | ||
| Owner | L. Gill-Johannessen, Oslo | ||
| Homeport | Oslo | ||
| Date of attack | 29 Jul 1942 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-155 (Adolf Cornelius Piening) | ||
| Position | 11.58N, 55.02W - Grid EE 8626 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 24 (1 dead and 23 survivors). | ||
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| Route | Bahia, Brazil (17 Jul) - Ceara (22 Jul) - Trinidad - New York | ||
| Cargo | General cargo, including cocoa and 500 tons of manganese ore | ||
| History | Completed in January 1939 On 10 Jun, 1942, the Bill picked up 31 survivors from L.A. Christensen, which had been sunk by U-129 earlier that day. They were landed on Bermuda two days later. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 20.00 hours on 29 Jul, 1942, the Bill (Master Christian Hartvig Evensen) was hit on the port side amidships in #3 hold by one torpedo from U-155 and sank after eight minutes about 170 miles southeast of Barbados. The Brazilian mess boy was killed. The master was taken prisoner by the U-boat, which then left the area after the survivors in three lifeboats had been given the course for Barbados. He was later taken to a hospital in Rennes where he died of heart trouble on 27 Nov, 1942. The three lifeboats were later separated, but all occupants survived: Seven survivors were picked up by the American steam merchant West Durfee on 1 August, eight others made landfall at Grenada on 3 August and the remaining men landed on St. Vincent. | ||
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