Ships hit by U-boats


Lucille M.

Canadian Motor fishing vessel


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NameLucille M.
Type:Motor fishing vessel
Tonnage54 tons
Completed1918 - Meteghan, Nova Scotia 
OwnerFrederick Sutherland, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 
HomeportYarmouth NS 
Date of attack25 Jul 1942Nationality:      Canadian
 
FateSunk by U-89 (Dietrich Lohmann)
Position42° 02'N, 65° 38'W - Grid CB 1295
Complement11 (0 dead and 11 survivors).
Convoy
RouteYarmouth - fishing grounds 
Cargo 
History  
Notes on event

At 09.55 hours on 25 July 1942, U-89 sank the Lucille M. off Cable Sable with 20 incendiary amd 15 high-explosive rounds from the deck gun. The crew, four of them wounded, abandoned ship in a lifeboat and made landfall at Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

 


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