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Built: 1937
Tonnage: 4,962 / 8,930 tons
Cargo: 7,104 tons of war materials, general cargo and mail
Route: Hampton Roads - New York - Trinidad - Capetown (8 May) - Durban - Bombay - Karachi
Sunk 11 MAY 43 by U-196 on pos. 32° 04'S 29° 13'E
2 Dead
42 Survivors
At 23.40 hours on 11 May 1943 the Nailsea Meadow (Master Eric William Lambert) was torpedoed and sunk by U-196 40 miles south of Port St.Johns, Cape Colony. Two crew members were lost. The master, 34 crew members and seven gunners were picked up by the SAAF crash launch R 6 and landed at East London on 12 May.
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