Afloat el capitan3/16/2023 ![]() ![]() They were all picked up by HMS Lord Austin (FY 220) (T/Lt E.L. ![]() Soon it became clear that the ship was in sinking condition and all 37 crew members, 11 armed guards and the 19 passengers safely abandoned ship. Holds #4 and #5 began to take water and the ship settled by the stern. The concussion caused the after peak compartment to break open, the bulkhead at #4 hold was ruptured and the starboard side of the engine room was demolished. A Ju 88 from II./KG 30 dropped three bombs which detonated close to the El Capitan in 70☁0N/41☄0W. and III./KG 30 about 65 miles northeast of Iokanka. On 9 July the small convoy was attacked by several German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft of II. Commodore Dowding assembled a small convoy out of them and then proceeded to Murmansk and Archangel. She reached Novaya Zemlya where she joined five other merchants and eight escort vessels from convoy in the Matochkin Strait. ![]() On 8 July, she picked up 19 survivors from the John Witherspoon which had been sunk by U-255 (Reche) two days earlier. Therik) had been in convoy PQ-17 that was dispersed on Admiralty orders in the Barents Sea on 4 July 1942. Changed registry to Panama on 1 October 1941. Purchased by the US Government on 26 June 1941 and turned over to US Lines under a GAA agreement at New York. Decommissioned and returned to her owners on 1 February 1919. On her second voyage, one day out of Philadelphia, she sighted a U-boat abeam and forced it to dive with her guns before it could attack. On 21 March 1918 acquired by the US Navy as cargo transport USS El Capitan (ID # 1407) for the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, making four transatlantic voyages between 29 March and 23 November 1918. Machinery, food, leather, ammunition and a deck cargo of tanksĬompleted in September 1917 as El Capitan for Southern Pacific Co Inc, New York. US Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 70476ġ917 - Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Newport News VA ![]()
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