Flandria (ship)

Flandria

Ship data Ship type Steamship Owner Götha, Förnyade Angfartygs Aktiebolag, Gothenburg Shipyard Helsingørs Jernskibs & Maskinbyggeri Aktieselskab, Helsingør Whereabouts Sunk on January 18, 1940 after being hit by a torpedo.

Ship dimensions and crew length 69.0 m ( Lüa ) width 10.1 m measurement 1179 GRT

The Flandria was a cargo steamer from Sweden . It belonged to the shipping company Götha, Förnyade Angfartygs Aktiebolag in Gothenburg . The ship was built in 1898 in Denmark in the yard of Elsinore Jernskibs & Maskinbyggeri Aktieselskab in Elsinore .

Sinking

The Flandria sank on January 18, 1940 at 11.53 p.m. within 20 seconds of a torpedo hit by U 9 ( Oberleutnant zur See Wolfgang Lüth ) in the North Sea at position 54 ° 0 ′  N , 3 ° 40 ′  E in naval grid square AN 6758. 17 People were killed in the sinking, four survived.

The ship had loaded general cargo and paper and was on its way to Amsterdam .

literature

• Busch, Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945 , Volume 3, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4
• Erich Gröner: The merchant fleets of the world 1942 and supplement 1944 , ISBN 3-469-00552-4
• Erich Gröner: Search list for ship names , ISBN 3-469-00553-2