Akenside (ship)

Akenside

Ship data flag  United Kingdom Ship type Cargo ship Owner Connell & Grace Limited Shipyard Wood, Skinner & Co. , Gateshead Commissioning 1917 Whereabouts Sunk on September 22, 1939

Ship dimensions and crew length 98.00 m ( Lüa ) width 13.20 m Draft Max. 5.80 m measurement 2,694 GRT

Machine system machine Steam engine

The Akenside was a cargo steamer from Great Britain .

The ship

It was measured with 2,694 GRT and was 98.00 m long, 13.20 m wide and a draft of 5.80 m. It belonged to the shipping company Connell & Grace Limited in Newcastle upon Tyne (Quayside Shipping Co. Ltd.). The ship was built in 1917 in England at the Wood, Skinner & Co. shipyard in Gateshead .

Sinking

The Akenside ( Captain John Thomas Nelson) fell on September 22, 1939 at 14:30 after a torpedo hit the German submarine U 7 ( Lieutenant Werner Heidel) in the North Sea , 15  nautical miles west of the island Store Marstein , before entering the Krossfjord and thus to Bergen (Norway) , at position 60 ° 7 ′ 0.2 ″  N , 4 ° 37 ′ 0.6 ″  E (bit. 56 ° 09 'N 04 ° 50' E) in marine grid square AN 2459 The ship had loaded 2000 tons of coal and was on its way from Blyth to Bergen.

The entire crew of 26 men was rescued by the Norwegian torpedo boat Storm and a Marstein pilot boat and set ashore in Bergen.

literature

• Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945 . Mittler, Hamburg 2001
  • Vol. 3. German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945 , ISBN 3-8132-0513-4
• Erich Gröner: The world's merchant fleets 1942 . Lehmanns, Munich 1976

1. Main band. 1976, ISBN 3-469-00552-4 (reprint of the 1942 edition)
2. Search list for ship names (supplementary volume). 1976, ISBN 3-469-00553-2 (reprint of the 1943 edition)

• Alan J. Tennent: British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines . Sutton Books, Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2760-7