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Hearts of Oak

Athel Line Ships

Tankers Ltd Ships

Scottish Standard

Scottish Standard

SCOTTISH STANDARD
6,999 grt

Built 1921 by Vickers Ltd, Barrow

For Tankers Ltd, London.

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

10.5 knots; oil engines.

The tanker SCOTTISH STANDARD, Capt. J. Ward, was attacked by a German FW200 Kondor dive-bomber in the North Atlantic on February 21st, 1941, damaged and set on fire, position 59.09N 16.18W. On the next day she was torpedoed and sunk by U-96 position 59.20N 16.12W. Five men were killed. Capt. Ward was among the 39 survivors. She was on voyage Clyde to New York in ballast. Destroyer HMS MONTGOMERY (ex-USS WICKES) rescued the survivors of Scottish Standard, landing them at Liverpool.

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