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AGWIMONTE –  The South African armed trawler HMSAS Vereeniging (T 72) picked up 61 survivors from a lifeboat and two rafts and landed them at Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 30 May. The other two boats with 8 survivors were sighted by a South African Army aircraft in the afternoon of 29 May. An Army crash boat rescued the occupants of those boats 18 hours after the attack and landed them two hours later at Gordon Bay.

BENJAMIN SMITH - 66 men on one raft were transferred to the boats and the motorized lifeboat towed the other two into Sassandra, French Ivory Coast. They were later taken to Accra and were repatriated by plane via Belem, Brazil, arriving in USA on 3 March 1943.

CHARLES PRATT – 40 Survivors occupied 2 boats. The first boat were picked up by the British motor merchant Gascony and landed at Freetown. Five days later, the survivors in the other boat were picked up by the British steam merchant Langleegorse and were also landed at Freetown.

CHICKASAW CITY – 42 survivors were picked up by the British Corvette HMS Rockrose (K-51) and taken to Freetown.

COLORADAN – 23 men in one boat were picked up by the HMS Active (H 14). The other boat with 25 men was towed by a fishing boat to Thorne Bay, South Africa. The survivors were later taken to Capetown, where many required hospitalisation.

CREEPLE CREEK - British armed trawler HMS St. Winstan (T 105) rescued 51 survivors and landed them  in Freetown.

EAST INDIAN - 17 men in the lifeboat were picked up 13 days after the attack by the British steam merchant Durando 135 miles south of Capetown. The radio operator later died ashore from shock and exposure.

EXAMELIA 40 survivors were picked up by the American steam merchant John Lykes and taken to Port Elizabeth, South Africa from which they traveled to Capetown by train.

FIRETHORN – 49 survivors were spotted by a plane about 1300. On the same day at 1700, they were picked up by HMS ROCKROSE (K-51). The next day the survivors on the rafts were rescued by HMS ROCKROSE and a mine sweeper. They were taken to Capetown arriving the same day.

LEHIGH – Survivors in two lifeboats were rescued by British motor launches and the remaining 5 of them injured were picked up by 2 British boats and one Destroyer 2 days after the sinking. 44 men were saved.

FLORA MCDONALD –  The armed trawler HMS Fandango (T 107) picked up 63 survivors and decided to head to Freetown, so the badly burned men could be treated. Three of them died on board and the other two died in the hospital in Freetown from their burns. 20 men were hospitalized.

GEORGE THATCHER – 48 survivors were picked up by the two French corvettes and landed in Point Noire on 3 November.

HONOLULAN – 40 men were picked up by the British motor merchant Winchester Castle six days later and landed in New York.

REINE MARIE STEWART - The crew of  11 abandoned ship in the one lifeboat, a 16' long, clinker built, wooden boat with an inboard motor. They headed for the West African coast and were eventually rescued by the British SS AFGHANISTAN and landed at Capetown.

ROBIN MOOR - 35 survivors in three boats were picked up on 2 June by a British merchant and landed at Capetown.

SAMUEL JORDAN KIRKWOOD – 6 officers, 36 crewmen, 25 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 5in, one 3in and 8 20mm guns) and 4 passengers (repatriated seamen) abandoned ship in four lifeboats and one raft. The ship immediately sank after a coup de grâce hit at 03.52 hours. The lifeboats were spotted by one  US Army crash boat and taken in tow for Ascension Island. 71 men in total were saved.

STAR OF SCOTLAND – 16 survivors set sail for Angola in one lifeboat and made landfall at Santa Maria Lighthouse having made a voyage of 1040 miles.

STELLA LYKES - The survivors numbering 50, boarded the single lifeboat and made landfall on 8 August at Cacheu, Portuguese Guinea.

SWIFTSURE – 33 survivors were picked up by one British Minesweeper and taken to Capetown.

WEST HUMHAW - 8 officers, 30 crewmen, 16 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) and 5 passengers abandoned ship in four lifeboats. The survivors were picked up after 45 minutes by the British motor launch HMS ML-281 and landed at Takoradi. 59 men were saved.

WEST IRMO – 9 officers, 27 crewmen, 8 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 5in and four .30cal guns) and the 55 surviving African stevedores abandoned ship in four lifeboats after 30 minutes and were picked up by the British escort HMS Copinsay (T 147). 99 crewmembers were saved.

WILLIAM HUMPHREY – 11 Survivors eventually landed at the coast of Ghana.