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Appalachee - (1930-1940)
"Appalachee" was build in 1930 by John Brown & Co., Ltd., Newcastle.Measurements : 477 feet length x 64 feet breadth, 12.350 TDW.
Engines : Oil, 12 knots.
1.12.1940 : Sunk by submarine U-101 torpedo, 54.30N 20.00W while sailing in convoy HX 90 (United States - United Kingdom).
"Appalachee"
Additional Information from the Starke & Schell Ships-registers ;
APPALACHEE -1930 BR 1M (aft) (12)
8,826 GRT for Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., Newcastle 477.0 x 63.8
Tanker build by Palmers' SB. & Iron Co., Ltd., Newcastle (12) #1002 161561
Torp. and sunk by U 101, 1 Dec 1940, in 54.30 N-20 W, voyage Baytown via Bermuda - Avonmouth, avgas and oil.
Additional Information from U-Boatnet :
Name: Appalachee
Type: Motor tanker
Tonnage: 8.826 tons
Completed: 1930 - Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow and Hebburn-on-Tyne
Owner: Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London
Homeport: Newcastle
Date of attack: 1 Dec, 1940
Nationality: British
Fate: Sunk by U-101 (Ernst Mengersen)
Position: 54.30N, 20W - Grid AL 5883
- See location on a map -
Complement: 39 (7 dead and 32 survivors).
Convoy: HX-90
Route: Baytown, Texas - Bermuda - Avonmouth
Cargo: 11.706 tons of aviation spirit
History: -
Notes on loss: At 22.12 hours on 1 Dec, 1940, U-101 attacked the convoy HX-90 about 340 miles west of Bloody Foreland and
claimed one ship of 8000 tons sunk (Loch Ranza was only damaged), one ship of 6000 tons damaged (not confirmed) and one
tanker of 12.000 tons sunk (Appalachee).
Seven crew members from the Appalachee (Master Warwick Armstrong) were lost. The master and 31 crew members were pick-
ed up by the HMS Heliotrope (K 03) (LtCdr J. Jackson) and landed at Londonderry.