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Loss of Alida Gorthon

Masters: 1904-05 E Evans: 1907 GC Tweedy: 1908 D Cole: 1909-11 D Prangios: 1913 J Gorthon: 1915 EB Borjesson: 1917 P Hogfeldt.

On a voyage from London for Methil & St John’s, Newfoundland in ballast with a crew of 44 Alida Gorthon was a straggler from convoy OA-204 when she was hit by a G7e torpedo from German submarine (U-100 Joachim Schepke) & sank 250 miles NW of Tory Island in 56.09N/12.14W on 29 August 1940. Earlier she had picked up 20 of the crew of the Dalblair which had been attacked by the same U-boat. These were all lost along with 11 of the crew from the Alida Gorthon.

Lives lost crew of Dalblair August 1940: Bruton, JH, master; Craig, JA; Eaton, PAO; Gallimore, M; Harkus, TP; Ismail, M; Jacobson, JG; Khan, D; Khan, M; Kinsey, JI; McKinlay, TC; Majid, A; Nathu, M; Oxley, RW; Reid, J; Smith, BJ; Stanley, J; Thompson, CAW; Thorn, LJS; Tyler, EE; Warren, GA; Whittaker, J; Wise, N.

Lives lost crew of Alida Gorthon August 1940: Olsen, Johan Berg, seaman, Norway.

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