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Merchant Vessels (excluding Commissioned Merchant Vessels) of all tonnages REPORTED damaged by Enemy Action.

Date.

Name and

Tonnage.

Nationality.

Cargo. From-

To-

Cause.

In Convoy

or not.

Position.

Extent of Damage.

Casualties to Crew and Other Remarks.

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towing in, but opera-

tions suspended until next spring tides

Not known.

1940.

Oct. 6

Hull Trader (717 tons)

British

A/C.

London Docks

Dec. 20-23 Prome

British

A/C.

Liverpool

(7,043 tons)

1941.

Jan. 7

S/T Trier

British

Mine

Not

150 holes in starboard No casualties. plating from

bombs

Damage to deck struc-

ture, shell plating and between decks.

N. by E., 12 miles Slight damage.

H.E.

(136 tons)

off Ormes Head

Jan. 11

Roy

Norwegian

London

Blyth

Mine

Not

. Off Humber

Engines

disabled.

(1,768 tons)

Towed into Hull.

Jan. 13

M/V Andoni

British

Timber

A/C.

Swansea

Not known.

(678 tons)

Jan. 15

Maywood

British

Cardiff

Liverpool

Mine

Not

About 20 miles

(1,823 tons)

W. by N. Lundy Island

Disabled and beached, Whitmore Bay.

Jan. 15

M/V Karri

British

Coal

Garston

Dublin

Mine

Not

(354 tons)

2 miles North of Towed into harbour 8 injured. Bar Lt. VI.

Jan. 15

S/T Stalker

(197 tons)

British

A/C. bomb

Not

Hawke Roads, Grimsby

Submerged, good No casualties.

chance of raising and

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Jan. 16... M/V Zealandic... British

(10,578 tons)

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Liverpool

Brisbane

S/M.

Not

230 miles W. by N. of Rockall

Torpedoed

* This information is provisional and may be modified subsequently on receipt of Commodore's report.

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