Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit.

 
Remembering
Anthony Attard Able Seaman RFA Petrella died 4th of february 1941

Mirlo

Built by: Armstrong & Co Ltd, Newcastle     Completed: 1922

Manager: Wilh, Wilhelmsen, Tonsburg

Tonnage: 7455 grt, 4415 nett, 11,334 dwt

Length: 441 feet

Beam: 57.5 feet

Draught: 34.1 feet

Machinery: Triple expansion engine

Speed: 10.5 knots

In Admiralty Service (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) from 1940

Mirlo was sailing independently from Curacao, via Trinidad to Freetown with a cargo of 10,500 tons of fuel oil, when she was torpedoed by U 130 (Korvettan Kapitan Ernst Kals), at 14:27 hrs on the 11 August 1942.

The ship was about 870 miles west of Freetown in position 06º 04’ N 25º 53’ W when the attack happened, all the crew of 30 Norwegian, 2 Canadian, 1 Spanish and 3 British Seamen survived the attack.

 

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