City of Mandalay
Photo courtesy of the Allen Collection
| Name | City of Mandalay | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 7.028 tons | ||
| Completed | 1925 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Ellerman Lines Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Oct, 1939 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-46 (Herbert Sohler) | ||
| Position | 44.57N, 13.36W - Grid BE 9169 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 80 (2 dead and 78 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HG-3 | ||
| Route | Saigon - Singapore - Port Swettenham - India - Le Havre - Dunkirk - London - Glasgow | ||
| Cargo | General cargo, including tea, rubber and sago | ||
| History | Completed in January 1925 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 08.00 hours on 17 Oct, 1939, U-46 attacked the Yorkshire in the unescorted convoy HG-3 with four rounds from her 8.8cm gun, no hits were scored and as the vessel fired back the U-boat dived. At 16.30 hours, U-46 heard a detonation, this was the hit on the Yorkshire by U-37 (Hartmann). 20 minutes later U-46 fired a G7e torpedo at the City of Mandalay, observed a hit amidships in the engine room and saw the ship listing. A second torpedo fired at 17.00 hours detonated prematurely. The City of Mandalay (Master Alexander Graham Melville) sank a short time later 360 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre. Two crew members were lost. The master, 76 crew members and the passenger were picked up by the American steam merchant Independence Hall and landed at Bordeaux. | ||
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