British Forces

Merchant ship sunk

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At 16.12 hours on 27 April 1941 the unescorted British motor merchant ship Beacon Grange (Master Alfred Byford Friend) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-552 south of Iceland. Two crew members were lost. The master, 73 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by the Belgian trawler Edouvard Anseele, transferred to HMS Gladiolus (K 34) (LtCdr H.M.C. Sanders, DSC, RNR) and landed at Londonderry, Northern Ireland.