Ships hit by U-boats


Mont Viso

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NameMont Viso
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage4,531 tons
Completed1921 - Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd, Middlesbrough 
OwnerSociété Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur SA, Marseilles 
HomeportMarseilles 
Date of attack3 Nov 1943Nationality:      French
 
FateSunk by U-593 (Gerd Kelbling)
Position36.45N, 01.55E - Grid CH 8296
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Complement? men (? dead and ? survivors).
ConvoyKMS-30
RouteOran - Augusta - Bari 
Cargo 
History Completed in July 1921  
Notes on loss

At 00.47 hours on 3 Nov, 1943, U-593 fired a spread of three torpedoes at the convoy KMS-30 and observed one hit. The vessel hit and sunk was the Mont Viso.

 


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