Charles Bowley

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Panel 63, Column 1.

Name Empire Attendant
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage 7,524 tons
Completed 1921 - Barclay, Curle & Co, Whiteinch, Glasgow
Owner Andrew Weir & Co, London
Homeport London
Date of attack 15 Jul 1942 Nationality: British

Fate Sunk by U-582 (Werner Schulte)
Position 23° 48'N, 21° 51'W - Grid DT 6153
Complement 59 (59 dead - no survivors)
Convoy OS-33 (dispersed)
Route Liverpool - Durban - Karachi
Cargo Stores and vehicles
History Launched as motor passenger ship Magnava, completed as Domala (8441 tons) for British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London
On 2 Mar 1940, the Domala was bombed by a German aircraft, set on fire and beached in Solent. She was rebuilt as steam merchant Empire Attendant for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

Notes on event
At 03.30 hours on 15 July 1942 the Empire Attendant (Master Thomas Grundy), dispersed from convoy OS-33, was torpedoed and sunk by U-582 south of the Canary Islands. The master, 49 crew members and nine gunners were lost.
U-582 reported her victim under the former name Domala.

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