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The SS ''City of Oxford'' was a steam merchant ship built in 1926 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and sunk by a German submarine on 15 June 1942. Displacing 2,759 tons she entered service with the Ellerman and Papayanni subsidiary of Ellerman Lines, and served during the Second World War. On her final voyage under Master Alfred Norbury, she was in "position No.54 in the convoy, being the last ship in the 5th column",〔EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MASTER,CAPTAIN WALDIE (SS Thurso), 30 JUNE 1942〕 part of Convoy HG 84 〔(Convoy HG-84 ) ''(Warsailors.com )'', accessed 2 Jan 2012.〕 travelling from Lisbon to Garston, and had called at Gibraltar on 9 June to join with the 36th Escort Group under the command of Captain "Johnnie" Walker. She was carrying two thousand tons of iron ore and three hundred tons of cork 〔(City of Oxford Cargo Ship 1926-1942 ) ''(the Wreck Site )'', accessed 2 Jan 2012.〕 The convoy was sighted approximately 300 nautical miles to the west of Cape Finisterre early in the morning of 15 June 1942 by ''U-552'', under Kapitänleutnant Erich Topp. Following a preliminary skirmish around 0400 hrs, Topp fired three torpedoes at the convoy between 0432 and 0434 hrs. The ''City of Oxford'' was the second of two ships to be struck 〔(City of Oxford (British Steam Merchant). Ships Hit By German U-Boats During WWII ), ''(Uboat.net )'', accessed 2 Jan 2012.〕 the first being the SS ''Thurso''. According to an oral history recounted by Cpt. "Johnnie" Walker, following the ''Thurso''s sinking: One crew member was lost in the sinking, the 43 survivors were picked up by the rescue ship ''Copeland'' before being transferred to the corvette , and then the ''Bittern''-class sloop 〔(HMS ''Stork'', sloop ) ''Naval-History-Net'', accessed 2 Jan 2012〕 and landed at Liverpool. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS City of Oxford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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