THE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT SHIP CALLED MANIPUR

"THE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT SHIP CALLED MANIPUR"

Name Manipur 

Type: Steam merchant 

Tonnage 8,652 tons 

Completed 1920 - Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow  

Owner T. & J. Brocklebank Ltd, Liverpool  

Homeport Liverpool  

Date of attack 17 Jul 1940 Nationality:      British 

  

Fate Sunk by U-57 (Erich Topp) 

Position 58.41N, 05.14W - Grid AM 3662 

Complement 79 (14 dead and 65 survivors). 

Convoy HX-55A  

Route Baltimore - Halifax - London  

Cargo General cargo, including iron, steel, lumber, copper and zinc slabs  

History Completed in September 1920 

 

Notes on loss 

At 22.22 hours on 17 Jul, 1940, the Manipur (Master Raymond Mallett) in convoy HX-55A was torpedoed and sunk by U-57 eight miles northwest of Cape Wrath. 14 crew members were lost. The master and 64 crew members were picked up by HMCS Skeena (D 59) (LtCdr J.C. Hibbard, RCN) and landed at Rosyth.

Source : Rajeshwor Yumnam