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Built 1921
Tonnage 8,207 / 12,020 tons
Cargo: 70,000 barrels of diesel oil.
Route: Abadan - Capetown
Sunk 08 OCT 42 By U-68 on pos. 34º
0 Dead.
33 Survivors
At 20.51 hours on 8 Oct, 1942, the unescorted Swiftsure (Master Marion Jackson Mathews Jr.) was hit aft on the starboard side by one torpedo from U-68
The survivors were picked up by a British minesweeper and taken to Capetown, but the master and some crew members returned the next day to determine whether the ship could be salvaged. The tanker was still burning fiercely, an attempt to tow her to the coast failed and she finally sank about 62 hours after the torpedo hit.
On 21 October, 31 survivors left Capetown on the Zaandam, which was sunk by U-174 (Thilo) on 2 November. 16 of the original survivors died in this sinking. Eight crew members spent five days in a lifeboat before they were picked up by the Gulfstate, which took them to
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