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Hearts of Oak

Athel Line Ships

Tankers Ltd Ships

Scottish Minstrel

SCOTTISH MINSTREL

6,998 grt

Built 1922 by Vickers Ltd, Barrow

For Tankers Ltd, London.

425ft 3ins x 57ft x 33ft 2ins

698 nhp; 10.5 knots; oil engines.

16th July 1940 - At 1223, the Scottish Minstrel on voyage New York to London, with fuel oil, in Convoy HX-55, was hit by one torpedo from U-61 about 130 miles NW of Bloody Foreland in the North Atlantic, about 170 miles W. of the island of Colonsay on the west coast of Scotland. The vessel remained afloat for many hours but it proved impossible to save her and she sank on the 17th. Nine crewmembers were lost. Capt. P. Dunn was among the 31 survivors, who were later picked up by HMS GARDENIA and landed at Folkestone.

Scottish Minstrel

 (with two other Tankers Ltd ships)

Raymond Forward