Tasso
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| Name | Tasso | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1,586 tons | ||
| Completed | 1938 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Ellermanīs Wilson Line Ltd, Hull | ||
| Homeport | Hull | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Dec 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-52 (Otto Salman) | ||
| Position | 55.03N, 18.04W - Grid AL 6558 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 32 (5 dead and 27 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-90 | ||
| Route | Demerara - Halifax (21 Nov) - Oban | ||
| Cargo | 1300 tons of logs | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 07.23 hours on 2 Dec, 1940, U-52 fired a torpedo at Tasso (Master Arnold Herbert) in convoy HX-90, hit the ship amidships and caused her to sink about 360 miles west of Bloody Foreland. Five crew members were lost. The master and 26 crew members were picked up by HMS Viscount (D 92) and landed at Liverpool. | ||
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