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SHIPS HIT GREECE 18 - GREEK SHIPS LOST

10)KOUMOUNDOUROS U-68




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Built: 1925


Tonnage: 3,598 / 6,505 tons


Cargo: 5,539 tons of maize.


Sunk 08 OCT 42 by U-68 on pos. 34º 10’S 17º 07E.


5 Dead


26 Survivors


Completed in January 1925 as British Daybreak for Claymore Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff. 1934 sold to Greece and renamed Koumoundouros.


At 02.31 hours on 8 Oct, 1942, the unescorted Koumoundouros was hit aft by a torpedo from U-68 about 20 miles southwest of Cape Point, South Africa. The ship had been missed by two torpedoes at 01.22 and 02.17 hours. At 03.13 hours, the U-boat fired a coup de grâce after the crew abandoned ship and hit the vessel again aft, causing the ship to sink by the stern. 


The third engineer and four crewmen on watch below were lost. The survivors were not questioned by the Germans as they rowed away from the sinking ship in the darkness. The boats set sail and were shortly thereafter sighted by aircraft and later that day picked up by HMAS Nizam (G 38) (Cdr M.J. Clark, DSO, RAN) and HMS Foxhound (H 69) (LtCdr G.H. Peters, RN) and landed at Capetown on 9 October.


By  Koumoundouros (Greek Steam merchant) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net


 

 

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