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RESPECTFUL MEMORIAL
Ship: Steamship Taberg
Year built: 1920 of steel
Reg nr: 7956. Home port: Gothenburg
Tonage: 1391 gross registered
Captain: W.A.M. Möller
Crew, captain included: 21
Journey: from Glasgow to Huelva
Ballast: Water and stone
Report according to #40 of the maritime law: 17th July 1941
Maritime declaration: At the General Consulate in Lisbon 3rd July 1941 arrived at Kunglig Kollegium 17th July 1941
Expert: present
Ship's log extract: attached protocol
1. Sea incident
When: 6th June 1941 04.30 hrs
Place: 300 distance minutes west of Gibraltar.
Wind and weather: Light westerly wind with swell. Clear but dark.
Further observations: 6th June 1941 occurred a very violent explosion. It was supposedly an unknown U-boat which without warning fired a torpedo that hit nr 3 hatch. The deck was ripped open and the hatch doors were thrown high up into the air. The stern began to sink quickly and there was no time to put out the lifeboats. When the explosion occurred they blew the steam whistle to call the crew to the boats also to signal the convoy of their predicament. The ship, stern first, sank within 2 minutes and the men who were on deck jumped off and managed to swim to a raft. The captain, 1st mate, 1st and 2nd engineer, 1 able seaman and 1 greaser managed to save themselves. 2 men were heard shouting for help but because there was a lot of debris in the way there was no way of reaching them. Their cries for help soon disappeared. The men on the raft were rescued at 05.15 by a minesweeper and with another ship, looked for more survivors but none were to be found. The convoy continued with the survivors. The convoy's commander asked permission to further investigate the area in daylight and was granted. A plane also searched but gave nothing.
2. Reason for incident:
With the evidence provided can only be described as:
Torpedoed.
Ian
