An item reported that on Saturday morning at the yard of Wilton-Fijenoord the motor tanker Eulota was launched. She was one of the three tankers with a loading capacity of 9,100 tons part of the shipbuilding program of the Royal Shell executed that moment by several shipyards. Her trial was planned begin April.
The newspaper Nieuwsblad van het Noorden dated 12 March 1940 reported her loss on the evening of the 11th. She left Rotterdam in ballast underway towards Curacao when she was lost by an explosion on the position 48˚35’ NB and 8˚22’’ WL. Her whole crew of 42 men was saved by a British warship. Master was B. Elzinga. She was in service of the shipping company N.V. Petroleum Maatschappij “La Corona ” a subsidiary of the Royal Shell. Fitted out with paravanes as protection against mines. The newspaper Indische Courant wrote the 14th that it was known what the explosion caused a torpedo or a mine.(1)
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1. The website http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/293.html claims she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-28 commanded by Günther Kuhnke.
