An item reported that a German submarine returned to Wilhelmshafen with on board two survivors of the Norwegian steamship Eika of 1.50 tons. The fate of the Eika was unknown since she was last sighted on 27 January off Cape Finisterre. The item still does not supply anything about what happened to her. She was underway with a cargo of salt from Spain to Norway with a crew numbering 18 men.(1)
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1. R. Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. She was torpedoed by the German U 51 and just two of the sixteen crewmembers survived the attack on 29 January. She belonged to K. Sandaas in Kragero, was built in 1939,gross register tonnage of 1.503 tons and a deadweight of 2.620 tons and as dimensions 254’10”x 38’8”x 7,2’ a speed of 11,0 knots. The funnel was black painted with a white coloured S in a blue diamond in a white band.
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1. R. Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. She was torpedoed by the German U 51 and just two of the sixteen crewmembers survived the attack on 29 January. She belonged to K. Sandaas in Kragero, was built in 1939,gross register tonnage of 1.503 tons and a deadweight of 2.620 tons and as dimensions 254’10”x 38’8”x 7,2’ a speed of 11,0 knots. The funnel was black painted with a white coloured S in a blue diamond in a white band.
