Sidney James Blagg

Sidney James Blagg was lost aboard SS Oporto

SS Oporto
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage 2,352 tons
Completed 1928 - Ramage & Ferguson Ltd, Leith
Owner Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd, Liverpool
Homeport Liverpool
Date of attack 13 Mar 1943 Nationality: British

Fate Sunk by U-107 (Harald Gelhaus)
Position 42° 45'N, 13° 31'W - Grid CG 1218
Complement 47 (43 dead and 4 survivors).
Convoy OS-44
Route Liverpool - Seville
Cargo 1500 tons of sulphate of copper, 413 tons of seed, potatoes and mail
History Completed in July 1928
Notes on event
At 05.30 hours on 13 March 1943, U-107 attacked convoy OS-44 190 miles west of Cape Finisterre and reported hits on three ships. In fact, four ships were hit, the Clan Alpine, Marcella, Oporto and Sembilangan.

The master, 35 crew members and seven gunners from the Oporto (Master Fred Bird) were lost. Four crew members were picked up by the HMS Spiraea (K 08) (Lt A.H. Pierce, OBE, RNR), transferred to HMS Gentian (K 90) (T/A/LtCdr E.W.C. Dempster, RNVR) and landed at Gibraltar. (Courtesy of uboat.net)

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