An item reported that the British tanker San Florentino of 12,842 gross tons was torpedoed off Lands’ End. More details were not known.
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1. R. Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. Of the Eagle Oil&Shipping Co. Ltd. of London, Built in 1919 with a gross registers tonnage of 12.842 tons, a deadweight of 19.540 tons and as dimensions 557’0” x 68’8” x 32’3” and a speed of 10,o knots. In contrary to the news item says Jordan that she was torpedoed on 1 October 1941 by the German submarine U 94, a day later again torpedoed costing the life of 22 men of a crew numbering 56 men and finally still floating destroyed by the American coast guard cutter Campbell.
