Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Hello friends,

I have a question about the damage of merchant ship Treverrack (5270 BRT) on 29.12.1940 nw of Tory Island:

-was she attacked by FW 200?,
-in which convoy did she sail? (SLS 58?).

Thank you

Darius

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Always worth googling the name of a ship ...

This site http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuil...ip.asp?id=5508 mentions that she was damaged by aircraft on 13 March 1941 and this one that on 8 June 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk by U-46 at 48.46N 29.14W on a voyage from Glasgow to Montreal. Nothing on your incident though.

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Thank you Nick,

my source was KTB Skl. for Dezember 1940:

"...gegen 1130 Uhr Angriff gegen Konvoi SLS 58 (?) nw Tory Island, dabei Df Treverrack beschädigt... " (this is not a quote)

Lloyd´s War Losses give the position of the attack as
53.25n03.45w


Greetings

Darius

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Hello Darius

The "Trevarrack" was attacked by a Condor at 11.25 a.m , 200 km NW of Londonderry, with 2 SC 250 of which 1 hit mid -ship.
The hit caused a big explosion( motor ?), 30 ° listing after 1 min.
Ship's loss was annouced as probable by the crew.

Hope this helps

Regards
Marc

PS : Darius, didn't you ask for a combat report last Week ? If so please let me know your PM

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

According to the book 'Scourge of the Atlantic' by Kenneth Poolman the TREVARRACK was part of the unescorted SLS58 when attacked.

Regards

Steve Pegge

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Take a look also at the excellent Convoy Web site.

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Hello Nick,I´ve looked there, but SLS 58 is not (so far) mentioned.Darius

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/sl2/index.html --> SL.58S is there now
TREVARRACK (Br), 22; 5,270;1919;Iron Ore;SUNK

Regards

Darius

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940
 

Gets a mention in my Condor book

Re: Damage to Treverrack on 29.12.1940