British tanker Auris destroyed according to the Dutch newspaper Advertentieblad van het department van de Wester-Eems dated 23 October 1941

An item reported that according to sources at New York the British motor tanker Auris (8,030 ton) was sunk in the North Atlantic loaded with American petrol for England on board.(1)

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1. Roger Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. Mentioned that she was twice torpedoed  by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci on 28 and 29 June 1941 before she sunk taking with her 32 men while 27 survived. Of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd of London, also known as ‘Shell Oil’. Her hull was black painted red boot topped hull with a yellow black topped funnel. Build in 1935 at the shipyard of Cantieri Riuniti Dell’Adriatico. Of 8.030 gross register tons and a deadweight of 12.262 tons and as dimensions 483’10” x 59’5” x 27’5” and a speed of 12.5 knots.