Clan MacPhee

HSVQ

Date of attack

16 Aug 1940

Fate

Sunk by U-30 (Fritz-Julius Lemp)

Position 57.30N, 17.14W - Grid AL 3783

Complement

108 (67 dead and 41 survivors).

Convoy

OB-197

Route

Glasgow - Liverpool - Bombay - coast of Malabar

Torpedoed and Sunk - 1940

Clan MacPhee Left Glasgow For Bombay Lost 16 August 1940		Fate
Master	T P Cranwill	Lost
Apprentice	J A Molyneux	Survived
Carpenter	G Bain	Lost
Chief Engineer	J Robertson	Lost
Third Engineer	W Innes	Lost
Chief Steward	J D Paterson	Lost

Cargo

6700 tons of general cargo

Notes on loss

At 19.32 hours on 16 Aug, 1940, the Clan Macphee (Master Thomas Philip B. Cranwell) in convoy OB-197 was hit by one torpedo from U-30 and sank about 350 miles west of North Uist, Outer Hebrides.

The master and 66 crew members were lost. 41 survivors were picked up by the Kelet, which was sunk by UA (Cohausz) on 19 Aug, 1940.

Six survivors from the Clan Macphee were lost, the remaining 35 survivors were picked up by the Norwegian steam merchant Varegg and landed at Galway on 26 August.

Vessel

Built

Service

Tonnage

Clan MacPhee

1911

1914 Requisitioned as Indian Expeditionary Force transport

1916 Requisitioned as East African transport

1940 Torpedoed and sunk in Atlantic

5177

Official Number

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

Screws

129578

Irvine’s Ship Building

West Hartlepool

Richardson Westgarth

Hartlepool

Triple Expansion Steam

657 NHP

3600 IHP

Master	Date	Left	Destination
E C Ody	6/1915	Glasgow	Cape Town
T P Cranwill	8/1940	Glasgow	Bombay

Master	From	To
E C Ody	1911	1918
L G Openshaw	1918
T P Cranwell		1940 Sunk