Post by Administrator on Oct 23, 2020 15:11:02 GMT
VIA: Neutral Shores, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic.
23 October 1940 another outbound convoy departed Liverpool into the Irish Sea heading for the North Channel. Included in the convoy was the tanker CARDITA, of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd (Shell). CARDITA would have an eventful end to 1940, on 11 December as part of convoy HX-92 the tanker fought off a surface attack by a U-boat using the deck gun and registering several near misses on the U-boat. It would be in another homeward convoy, HX-166 that CARDITA would be found unprotected as a straggler from the convoy and was sunk on 31 December 1941.
Another ship in OB-233 was the Belgian cargo ship OLYMPIER that would be yet another victim to the FW200. 15 survivors from the Belgian ship would land in Donegal on 02 February 1941.
23 October 1940 another outbound convoy departed Liverpool into the Irish Sea heading for the North Channel. Included in the convoy was the tanker CARDITA, of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd (Shell). CARDITA would have an eventful end to 1940, on 11 December as part of convoy HX-92 the tanker fought off a surface attack by a U-boat using the deck gun and registering several near misses on the U-boat. It would be in another homeward convoy, HX-166 that CARDITA would be found unprotected as a straggler from the convoy and was sunk on 31 December 1941.
Another ship in OB-233 was the Belgian cargo ship OLYMPIER that would be yet another victim to the FW200. 15 survivors from the Belgian ship would land in Donegal on 02 February 1941.