Nirpura
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Nirpura | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.961 tons | ||
| Completed | 1921 - W. Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool | ||
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 3 Mar, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-160 (Georg Lassen) | ||
| Position | 32.47S, 30.48E - Grid KZ 1336 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 126 (38 dead and 88 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | DN-21 | ||
| Route | Durban - Karachi | ||
| Cargo | 39 South African Defence troops and 800 mules | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 23.22 hours on 3 Mar, 1943, U-160 made her first attack on the convoy DN-21 about 40 miles south of Port St.Johns, South Africa, sank the Harvey W. Scott and Nirpura and damaged the Tibia. 38 men from the Nirpura (Master Thomas George Hodgkinson) were lost and 88 (including the master) were picked up by the SAAF crash launch R-8 and landed at Durban. | ||
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