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Athenic

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1936 Athenic Cockerline & Co. Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from Portland, Maine for Sydney & London with a cargo of wheat & a total compliment of 40 Athenic dispersed from convoy SC-26 & was torpedoed by German submarine U-76 (Friedrich von Hippel) SSW of Reykjavik  on 4 April 1941 & sank on 5 April 1941. Survivors were picked up by HMS Arbutis. Master Ernest William Agnes.

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