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Name San Gerardo
Type: Steam tanker
Tonnage 12,915 tons
Completed 1922 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Hebburn-on-Tyne
Owner Eagle Oil & Shipping Co Ltd, London
Homeport London
Date of attack 31 Mar 1942 Nationality: British

Fate Sunk by U-71 (Walter Flachsenberg)
Position 37° 33'N, 68° 22'W - Grid CA 6989
Complement 57 (51 dead and 6 survivors).
Convoy
Route Curaçao (23 Mar) - Halifax
Cargo 17,000 tons of fuel oil
History Completed in February 1922
Notes on event
At 22.22 hours on 31 March 1942 the unescorted San Gerardo (Master Stanley Foley) was hit by two torpedoes from U-71 and sank by the stern southeast of New York. The master, 47 crew members, two gunners and one passenger (DBS) were lost. Three crew members and three gunners were picked up by the British motor tanker Regent Panther and landed at Halifax. (Courtesy of uboat.net)

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