Ships hit by U-boats


Varlaam Avanesov

Soviet Motor tanker



Photo courtesy of Paul Johnson Collection

NameVarlaam Avanesov
Type:Motor tanker
Tonnage6,557 tons
Completed1932 - A/B Götaverken, Gothenburg 
OwnerSovtorgflot, Moscow 
HomeportTuapse 
Date of attack19 Dec 1941Nationality:      Soviet
 
FateSunk by U-652 (Georg-Werner Fraatz)
Position39° 27'N, 26° 05'E - Grid CK 9284
Complement? men (1 dead and ? survivors).
Convoy
RouteBatumi, Black Sea (25 Nov) - Istanbul - Pacific 
Cargo 
History Completed in April 1932 as Norwegian Eidsvold for A/S Eidsica (S. Ditlev-Simonsen), Oslo. 1932 sold to the Soviet Union and renamed Varlaam Avanesov
Notes on event

At 21.34 hours on 19 Dec 1941 the unescorted Varlaam Avanesov was hit by a torpedo from U-652 in the Aegean Sea and sank after about two hours 2,5 miles off Cape Babakale, Tenedes Island. The survivors abandoned ship in the lifeboats, reached the Turkish coast and were later repatriated.

 


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