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| Keywords: SS Geraldine Mary torpedoed by U-52 1940.jpg View from a 10 Squadron RAAF Short Sunderland circling the sinking SS Geraldine Mary of the A N D Company The ship departed Botwood Newfoundland under the command of Captain George McCartney Sime on 19 July 1940 carrying 43 people and 610 tons of rolled news print bound for England Fifteen days out the ship was torpedoed by the German U-Boat U-52 captained by Otto Salman resulting in the deaths of two crewmen and one passenger The ship was abandoned and soon broke in two capsizing and sinking not far from the Irish coast The master and 27 survivors were picked up by a British escort vessel and landed at Methil on 8 August Six survivors were rescued and landed at Liverpool and 14 others landed at Uig Isle of Lewis Among the survivors were four passengers Captain Sime died less than a year later on another company ship the Rothmere which sank on 20 May 1941 between Greenland and Iceland P07684 003 1940-08-02 Australian armed forces Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia World War II on the Atlantic Ocean Black and white photographs | ||||
