Helen Moller
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| Name | Helen Moller | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,259 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - C. Connell & Co Ltd, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Moller & Co Ltd, Shanghai | ||
| Homeport | Shanghai | ||
| Date of attack | 5 Jun 1944 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-183 (Fritz Schneewind) | ||
| Position | 04.28S, 74.45E - Grid LN 4931 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 73 (4 dead and 69 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Colombo - Fremantle | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed October 1918 as British fleet oiler War Cateran (5261 tons) for Shipping Controller, managed by Gow, Harrison & Co; 1919 sold to France, converted to steam merchant and renamed Sierentz for Louis Dreyfus & Co, Dunkirk; 1933 sold to Britain and renamed Helen Moller for Moller & Co Ltd, Shanghai. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 18.03 hours on 5 Jun, 1944, the unescorted Helen Moller (Master Charles Frederick Paull) was torpedoed and sunk by U-183 about 400 miles southeast of Colombo. Two crew members and two gunners were lost. The master, 61 crew members and seven gunners were rescued; the master and 25 survivors three days later by the British merchant Empire Confidence and landed at Colombo on 11 June; the remaining 43 survivors on 12 June by the British auxiliary patrol boat HMS Okapi (Paymaster Lt A.M.H. Baker) and landed at Addu Atoll. | ||
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