Stangrant
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| Name | Stangrant | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.804 tons | ||
| Completed | 1912 - R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Hebburn | ||
| Owner | J.A. Billmeir & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 13 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-37 (Victor Oehrn) | ||
| Position | 58.27N, 12.36W - Grid AM 1694 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 38 (8 dead and 30 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-77 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Hampton Roads, Virginia - Halifax - Belfast | ||
| Cargo | 7715 tons of steel and scrap | ||
| History | Built as Port Macquarie, 1927 renamed Cambrian Marchioness, 1938 renamed Clan Grant, 1939 renamed Stangrant
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| Notes on loss | At 19.57 hours on 13 Oct, 1940, the Stangrant (Master Evan David Rowlands), a straggler from convoy HX-77, was hit aft by one torpedo from U-37 and sank on even keel northeast of Rockall. Eight crew members were lost. The survivors in one of the lifeboats were questioned by the Germans. The master, 28 crew members and one gunner were rescued by a Short Sunderland flying boat of 10. RAAF-Sqdn and landed at Oban. | ||
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