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Monday, 10 August 2026

British cargo ship Cape St. Andrew lost according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 64 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 14-21 November 1940

An item reported the loss on 13 November of the British cargo ship Cape St. Andrew, tonnage 5,094 tons torpedoed and sunk by a submarine on the position 70 miles west of the Bloody Foreland (1) while being towed. Of the crew 53 men landed, 15 missing.

Note

1. The Bloody Foreland or Cnoc Fola is a red colored headland in County Donegal along the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland near the Parish of Gweedore.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-13-37. 

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