Mount Kassion
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| Name | Mount Kassion | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 7,914 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Uraga Dry Dock Co Ltd, Uraga | ||
| Owner | Kulukundis Shipping Co SA, Pirĉus | ||
| Homeport | Pirĉus | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Aug 1942 | Nationality:  Greek | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-176 (Reiner Dierksen) | ||
| Position | 56.30N, 32.14W - Grid AK 0247 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 54 (0 dead and 54 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-94 | ||
| Route | Montreal - Sydney - Cardiff | ||
| Cargo | 9700 tons of general cargo | ||
| History | Built as Docteur Pierre Benoit, 1937 renamed Mount Kassion
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| Notes on loss | At 15.18 hours on 8 Aug, 1942, U-176 fired two spreads each of two torpedoes at the convoy SC-94 southeast of Cape Farewell and heard two hits after 1 minute 20 seconds and one hit each after 1 minute 34 seconds and 2 minutes 11 seconds, then sinking noises were heard. The victims were Trehata in station #51, Kelso in station #52 and the Mount Kassion in station #53. The Mount Kassion did not sink until the morning of 9 August. | ||
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