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SS Robin Moor
SS ''Robin Moor'' was a Hog Islander steamship that sailed under the American flag from 1919 until being sunk by on 21 May 1941, before the United States had entered World War II, after allowing the passengers and crew to disembark. This sinking of a neutral nation's ship in an area considered until then to be relatively safe from U-boats, and the plight of her crew and passengers, caused a political incident in the United States.
==Construction, prior names and owners ==
The ship was completed in 1919 by the emergency shipbuilding works of American International Shipbuilding Corp. at Hog Island, just outside Philadelphia. She was a "Hog Islander," the name for the class of ugly but sturdy merchant vessels built at the works during that period. She was laid down as the SS ''Shetucket'', and completed as the SS ''Nobles.'' In 1928 she was renamed the SS ''Exmoor'' for American Export Lines Inc, of New York. In 1940 she was sold to Seas Shipping Co Inc., of New York, and renamed the SS ''Robin Moor.''
==Her sinking==
In May 1941 the ''Robin Moor'' was carrying nine officers, 29 crewmen, seven or eight passengers, and a commercial cargo from New York to Mozambique via South Africa, without a protective convoy. On 21 May, the ship was stopped by in the tropical Atlantic 750 miles west of the British-controlled port of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Although the ''Robin Moor'' was flying the flag of a neutral country, her mate was told by the U-boat crew that they had decided to "let us have it." After a brief period for the ship's crew and passengers to board her four lifeboats, the U-boat fired a torpedo at the rudder and then shelled the vacated ship at the bridge. Once the ship was scuttled beneath the waves, the submarine's crew pulled up to Captain W.E. Myers' lifeboat, left him with four tins of ersatz bread and two tins of butter, and explained that the ship had been sunk by her own crew because she was carrying supplies to Germany's enemy.
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