SS Tregenna

From November 1939 to February 1940 Tregenna sailed from New Zealand via New South Wales and South Africa to Freetown in Sierra Leone, where she joined Convoy SL 18 to return to Liverpool in England. In March and April 1940 she sailed to and from northern Norway. She left Ålesund with Convoy HN 25 on 9 April, the day after the German invasion of Norway began.^[9]

From May 1940 Tregenna made transatlantic crossings to bring steel from Philadelphia to South Wales, sailing eastbound in HX convoys from Halifax, Nova Scotia to UK waters. That June she sailed in Convoy HX 49, and discharged her cargo in Swansea.^[10]

On 1 September Tregenna left Philadelphia carrying 8,000 tons of steel bound for Newport.^[11] On 5 September she joined Convoy HX 71 from Halifax. HX 91 had nine columns, and Tregenna was the first ship of the ninth column.^[12]

On 17 September HX 71 was in the Western Approaches west of Scotland. At 1626 hrs that afternoon U-65 hit Tregenna with one torpedo 78 nautical miles (144 km) northwest of Rockall. Tregenna sank rapidly, killing her Master, 31 members of her crew and a DEMS gunner. Another member of HX 71, the cargo ship Filleigh, rescued four survivors and landed them at Avonmouth.^[11]

SS Tregarthen

58°22′N 15°42′W / 58.367°N 15.700°W / 58.367; -15.700