Hi Chris
Thank you very much for this suggestion. The Empire Scout was a captured German ship, about half the tonnage of the Empire Bison, a ship bought from the Americans. I do not have much knowledge of the movements of the Empire Scout - she was in a convoy that arrived in UK about 31 Aug 1940 so it is just possible that she was turned round and dispatched about 5 Sep 1940 in the same convoy as the Empire Bison and perhaps also became a straggler.
Please forgive my ignorance but I do not understand the positional data "location 25W/5520".
I was interested that you report the FW 200 as carrying more than 5 bombs: I was worried by my sailor's report of 8 bombs as I had thought hitherto that the FW 200 only carried 5.
All the best
Gobbo
PS The Empire Scout is not listed as a part of convoy OB 209, see
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/ob2/inde...oy=209!~obmain