Shahzada
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Shahzada | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.454 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Asiatic Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 9 Jul, 1944 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-196 (Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat) | ||
| Position | 15.30N, 65.30E - Grid MR 25 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 98 (46 dead and 52 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Mormugao - Aden - Suez | ||
| Cargo | 5000 tons of groundnuts | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | On 9 Jul, 1944, the unescorted Shahzada (Master Allan Scott Hamilton) was torpedoed and sunk by U-196 southwest of Bombay. The master, 36 crew members and nine gunners were lost. 15 crew members were picked up by the British steam merchant Changon and landed at Bombay on 17 July and 21 crew members made landfall at Goa on 18 July. 15 other crew members and one gunner were picked up by the Swedish steam merchant Magna and landed at Aden on 21 July. | ||
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