Stirlingshire
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| Name | Stirlingshire | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 6.022 tons | ||
| Completed | 1928 - Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd, Greenock | ||
| Owner | Turnbull, Martin & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Dec, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-94 (Herbert Kuppisch) | ||
| Position | 55.36N, 16.22W - Grid AM 4416 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 74 (0 dead and 74 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-90 | ||
| Route | Sydney NSW - Townsville, Queensland - Bermuda - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 3270 tons of sugar, 2000 tons of lead, 1900 tons of refrigerated foodstuffs and 460 tons of general cargo | ||
| History | Built as Clan Macdonald, 1930 renamed Stirlingshire | ||
| Notes on loss | At 18.23 hours on 2 Dec, 1940, the Stirlingshire (Master Charles Edward O´Byrne) in convoy HX-90 was hit amidships by one G7e torpedo from U-94 and sank with a starboard list about 280 miles west by north of Bloody Foreland. The master, 72 crew members and one gunner were picked up by the British merchant Empire Puma from the same convoy and landed at Liverpool. | ||
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