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S/S HAINAUT
Lost during the Second World War
- Type
- Steam merchant
- Tonnage
- 4,312 GRT
- Built
- 1905 – Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Owner
- Armement Deppe, Antwerp
- Home port
- Antwerp
- Date
- 5 July 1942
- Fate
- Sunk by U-132 (Ernst Vogelsang)
- Attacker
- U-132 (Ernst Vogelsang)
- Convoy
- QS-15
- Voyage
- Montreal → United Kingdom
- Cargo
- General cargo and lorries as deck cargo
- Position
- 49.5000, -66.5000 · grid BA 3911
Position of the attack. Click the map to enable zoom.
Crew list (41 names)
The voyage
- Departure
- Montreal
- Destination
- United Kingdom · never reached
- Sunk
- 5 July 1942
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master (Kapitein) | Castelein Leon | Wounded | |
| 2nd Officer (2de officier) | Dom Jan | Survived | |
| 3rd Officer (3de officier) | Verleene Emiel | Survived | |
| Radio Officer (Marconist) | Laurens Robert | Survived | |
| Carpenter (Timmerman) | Pano Elie | Russia | Survived |
| Boatswain (Bootsman) | Dokoutchaeff Gregory | Russia | Wounded |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | Balderstone John | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | Caswell Laurence | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | Rannamae Voldemar | Estonia | Survived |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | Remmelkoor Edgar | Estonia | Survived |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | Vornik Magnus | Estonia | Survived |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | Van Birgelen Gerard | Survived | |
| Ordinary Seaman (Lichtmatroos) | Fowler Alfred | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Ordinary Seaman (Lichtmatroos) | Johnson Frederic | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Ordinary Seaman (Lichtmatroos) | Lamport James | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Chief Engineer (Hoofdwerktuigk.) | De Landtsheer Charles | Survived | |
| 2nd Engineer Officer (2de mecanicien) | Nicola Franciscus | Survived | |
| 3rd Engineer Officer (3de mecanicien) | Lousanoff Wladimir | Russia | Wounded |
| 4th Engineer Officer (4de mecanicien) | Remaut Henri | Survived | |
| Donkeyman | De Visser Petrus | Survived | |
| Donkeyman | De Zitter Karel | Survived | |
| Donkeyman | Van Hoovoorst Henri | Survived | |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Abdou Ali | Yemen | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Aouad Mohammed | Djibouti | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Aklan Abdullah | Yemen | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Darhume Ali | Djibouti | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Guessi Hassan | Morocco | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Haddour Mohammed | Morocco | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Mohamed Nasser | Djibouti | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Mokbel Mohammed | Djibouti | Survived |
| Fireman (Stoker) | †Said Nouman | Djibouti | Lost |
| Fireman (Stoker) | Whiteside Samuel | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Steward | Bruyninckx Georges | Survived | |
| Cook (Kok) | Surmont Jan | Survived | |
| Messroom Steward (Messroom-steward) | Jenkins George | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Galley Boy (Galley-boy) | Aitken Albert | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Cabin Boy (Cabin-boy) | Edmonds Reginald | United Kingdom | Survived |
| Gunner | Buyle Constant | Wounded | |
| Gunner | Corthout Frans | Survived | |
| Gunner | Van Goethem Jacques | Survived | |
| Gunner | Van Heurck Adriaan | Wounded |
The convoy QS-15
- Dates
- 6 July 1942
- Sunk
- 3 · 10,249 tons
The dotted line follows the great circle the QS series ran, Quebec to Sydney (Nova Scotia), with the coastal bends the fairway imposes. The red point is where the Belgian ship was hit, from the U-boat’s attack report.
About the line on this map
A convoy steered the great circle: the shortest way over the globe, not the straight line on the map. That is why the Atlantic crossing here runs so far north, and why ships on that route were hit around 55 to 58 degrees and not at 48. The bends closer to land follow the fairway – the North Channel above Ireland, round Land’s End, through the Strait of Gibraltar.
The line is the route of the series, not the track that one convoy actually steered. The Admiralty shifted convoys north or south from sailing to sailing, according to the season and where the U-boats were; ONS-154 was deliberately routed south past the Azores in December 1942. And a straggler or a dispersed ship was by definition no longer with the group. Where the red point sits far from the line, that is usually what you are looking at.
Convoys (22)
From the Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Convoys only, not independent voyages: a ship sailing alone does not appear. See the convoy page.
| Convoy | Departed | Route | Sunk |
|---|---|---|---|
| SL/MKS.46S | 1 September 1940 | Freetown – Dispersed | 1 sunk |
| SL/MKS.46 | 3 September 1940 | Freetown – Liverpool | |
| OB.236 | 29 October 1940 | Liverpool - Dispersed | |
| SC.14 | 30 November 1940 | Sydney CB – Liverpool | |
| FS.381 | 6 January 1941 | Methil – Southend | |
| FN.425 | 5 March 1941 | Southend – Methil | |
| EN.83/1 | 9 March 1941 | Methil – Oban | |
| OB.296 | 10 March 1941 | Liverpool - Dispersed | 1 sunk |
| SL/MKS.72 | 17 April 1941 | Freetown – Liverpool | 1 sunk |
| OG.67 | 3 July 1941 | Milford Haven – Gibraltar | 1 sunk |
| SC.43 | 5 September 1941 | Sydney CB – Liverpool | |
| ON.31 | 28 October 1941 | Liverpool - Dispersed | |
| SC.62 | 27 December 1941 | Sydney CB - Dispersed in 56.49N 09.12W | 1 sunk |
| SC.64 | 9 January 1942 | Sydney CB – Liverpool | 1 sunk |
| ON.68 | 19 February 1942 | Liverpool - Dispersed | 2 sunk |
| BX.1 | 21 March 1942 | St John Nb – Halifax | |
| SC.77 | 30 March 1942 | Halifax – Liverpool | |
| BB.163 | 17 April 1942 | Belfast Lough – Milford Haven | |
| WP.144 | 20 April 1942 | Milford Haven – Portsmouth | |
| PW.148 | 29 April 1942 | Portsmouth – Milford Haven | |
| ON.100 | 2 June 1942 | Liverpool – Cape Cod | 4 sunk |
| HS.15 | 19 June 1942 | Halifax – Sydney CB |
Sources
Crew list from the printed source.