Dutch merchant ship Escaut lost in air attack according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 83 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 27 March-3 April 1941

An item reported that on 26 March was lost to bombs and machine gunfire of enemy aircraft the Dutch merchant ship Escaut (1), tonnage 347 tons, loaded with coal, underway from Ayrto Par, Cornwall, part of convoy not, on the position 8 miles off Bude. One crew member wounded.

Note

1. Since June 1940 in time-charter of the British Ministry of Shipping, she was deliberately grounded to prevent her sinking and abandoned, salvaged and repaired in 1944 and operated by the British Ministry of Transport under her new name Empire Leech, renamed Seine in 1948 owned by Vianda Steamship Company Ltd., London, England and sunk in a collision underway from Paris, France towards London, England on 16 July 1955.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-16-1.