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Built 1903
Tonnage 3,575
Cargo: 1100 tons of iron ore, 2915 tons of groundnuts and 996 tons of groundnut cake
Route: Vizagapatam - Barry Roads
Sunk 25/May/41 by U-103 on pos. 06º 00’N, 12º 00’W
1 Crew missing
At 16.31 hours on 25 May, 1941, the unescorted Radames was hit in the stern by one torpedo from U-103 after being chased for about five hours and sank slowly by the stern off the Liberian coast.
By www.uboat.net