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M/S Ingria To Ingria on the "Ships starting with I" page. Owner: A/S Inger Built by Burmeister & Wain's Maskin- og Skibsbyggeri A/S, Copenhagen in 1931. Captain: Fredrik Ditlefsen (from 1937). Related item on this website:
Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives: Please compare the above voyages with Arnold Hague's Voyage Record below.
(Received from Don Kindell - His source: The late Arnold Hague's database). Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each. Errors may exist, and some voyages may be missing.
As will be seen when going to Page 1 of the archive documents, Ingria was in Philadelphia when war broke out in Norway on Apr. 9-1940, having arrived there from Baltimore on Apr. 7. She was scheduled for Convoy HX 138 from Halifax to the U.K. on July 11-1941, but instead joined the next convoy on July 16, HX 139, bound for Mersey with general cargo. The Commodore's narrative is also available for this convoy. The following month, she sailed in Convoy OS 4, which departed Liverpool on Aug. 23 (Segundo was sunk). Ingria arrived Freetown Sept. 14, proceeding to Cape Town on Sept. 19, with arrival Oct. 4. She later returned to the U.K. in Convoy SL 95, departing Freetown on Dec. 12; she arrived Liverpool on Jan. 1-1942. See the links provided within the above table for more on these convoys. See also Page 2. Later that month (Jan. 30-1942), she joined Convoy OS 18, on a voyage from Liverpool to Durban/Beira with general cargo as well as aircraft in station 61. In May that year, she sailed in the other direction with Convoy SL 109/SLF 109, departing Freetown on May 4. Her voyage information is given as Beira (March 28) - Liverpool, general cargo, station 91. Mike Holdoway, the webmaster of the SL Convoys site, has told me that the general cargo consisted of 2026 tons mimosa extract, 1505 tons copper, 976 tons chrome ore, 571 tons wool, 510 tons magnesite, 473 tons asbestos, 439 tons tea, 192 tons hides etc, 82 tons cobalt, 179 tons sundries, for a total of 6953 tons. In July, we find her in Convoy OS 33 (station 63), voyaging from Liverpool to Cape Town and Bombay. Please go to the external website that I've linked to in the Voyage Record for a lot more information on its passage; the site has a separate section for OS 33. Ingria was in the convoy from departure Liverpool on July 1 until dispersed to continue her voyage to Cape Town and Bombay unescorted. She had a cargo of military and general stores (including explosives) and was designated as 'carrying dangerous cargo'. She was armed with 1 x 3" gun, 4 machine guns and kites. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Sophocles, Maloja and Jenny. Ingria was scheduled for Convoy HX 220 from New York on Dec. 21-1942, but instead joined the next convoy on Dec. 29, HX 221; see also the Commodore's narrative (the Commodore was in Abraham Lincoln). She had general cargo for Hull, where she arrived, via Loch Ewe and Methil, on Jan. 17-1943. She left Hull again on Febr. 4 and arrived Loch Ewe, via Methil, on Febr. 10, then the next day she embarked on what was to be her last voyage, as will be seen in the next paragraph.
Ingria left Loch Ewe for New York in ballast in station 83 of the westbound Convoy ON 166 on Febr. 11-1943. At about 05:15* (GMT?) on Febr. 24 she was torpedoed by U-600 (Zurmühlen), in the 5th attack on the convoy. (Page 3 of the archive documents gives the time as about 05:35 on the 24th). The torpedo struck in the port side between hold No. 4 and the engine room, which immediately flooded, stopping all the machinery. By the time the ship had been abandoned in 2 lifeboats her stern was just 2' above water and she had cracked all the way across. The boats were clear of the ship when another torpedo struck about 20 minutes later, this time from U-628 (Hasenschar) and she sank 45 12N 39 17W. The survivors from Ingria were picked up by the escorting Canadian corvette HMCS Rosthern a couple of hours later and landed in St. John's on Febr. 27. The maritime hearings were held there that same day(?) with the captain, the 1st mate, the 2nd engineer and Ordianry Seaman Remø (helmsman) appearing.
The following ships were sunk in ON 166:
External links related to the text on this page: ON 166, 21 - 26 Feb 1943 - Details on the battle and a list of ships sunk. Also, by going to the section on Allied ships hit by U-boats, and typing the name of each vessel sunk in the search field, more information on their loss is available. Again, see also my own page about Convoy ON 166. Operations information for U-600 | Operations information for U-628 Back to Ingria on the "Ships starting with I" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "The Allied Convoy System", Arnold Hague, "Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer, "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Volume I (Norwegian Maritime Museum), and misc. (ref. My sources). Summary of statements by survivors, in a Memorandum signed by Lieutenant Robert G. Fulton, was received from Tony Cooper, England.
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