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S/S ROUMANIE
Lost during the Second World War
- Type
- Steam merchant
- Tonnage
- 3,563 GRT
- Built
- 1906 – Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges., Flensburg
- Owner
- Armement Deppe, Antwerp
- Home port
- Antwerp
- Date
- 24 September 1942
- Fate
- Sunk by U-617 (Albrecht Brandi)
- Attacker
- U-617 (Albrecht Brandi)
- Convoy
- SC-100 (straggler)
- Voyage
- Baltimore → London
- Cargo
- 4,586 tons of general cargo
- Position
- 58.1667, -28.3333 · grid AK 2257
Position of the attack. Click the map to enable zoom.
Crew list (43 names)
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master (Kapitein) | †Morbée Emile | Lost | |
| 1st Officer (1ste officier) | †Clees Raymond | Lost | |
| 2nd Officer (2de officier) | †Willems Evrard | Lost | |
| 3rd Officer (3de officier) | †De Palmenaer Andre | Lost | |
| Radio Officer (Marconist) | †Levrault Max | Lost | |
| Carpenter (Timmerman) | †De Donder Ferdinand | Lost | |
| Boatswain (Bootsman) | †Makagone Basile | Lost | |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | †D'Hondt Julien | Lost | |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | †Fouche Louis | Lost | |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | †Hogan John | Ireland | Lost |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | †Holzapfel Robert | Lost | |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | †Smith William | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Able Seaman (A.B.) | †Vos Theodoor | Netherlands | Lost |
| Ordinary Seaman (Lichtmatroos) | †Machin Reginald | Ireland | Lost |
| Ordinary Seaman (Lichtmatroos) | †Madden Henry | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Ordinary Seaman (Lichtmatroos) | †Valentine Henry | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Chief Engineer (Hfd-werktuigk.) | Suykerbuyk Pierre | Survived | |
| 2nd Engineer Officer (2de mecanicien) | †De Boey Victor | Lost | |
| 3rd Engineer Officer (3de mecanicien) | †Vandenbroecke Leon | Lost | |
| 4th Engineer Officer (4de mecanicien) | †Present Joseph | Lost | |
| Donkeyman | †Bascour Arnold | Lost | |
| Donkeyman | †Loisen Henry | Lost | |
| Donkeyman | †Muir William | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Anana Abbas | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Correa Joseph | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Hamelin Ibo | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Kaoute Baba | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Kiang Théo | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Mendy Lys | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Ouadah Si-Ali | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Paul Jean | French colony | Lost |
| Fireman and Trimmer (Stoker-Tremmer) | †Saloum Malada | French colony | Lost |
| Steward | †Tops Leopold | Lost | |
| Messroom Steward (Messroom-steward) | †Van Den Dyke Jozef | Lost | |
| Cabin Boy (Cabin-boy) | †Reynolds Thomas | United Kingdom | Lost |
| 1st Cook (1ste kok) | †De Mittenaere Octaaf | Lost | |
| 2nd Cook (2de kok) | †Jacobs Jan | Lost | |
| Gunner | †Brice Dennis | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Gunner | †Davies James | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Gunner | †De Roeck Emiel | Lost | |
| Gunner | †Herkens Karel | Lost | |
| Gunner | †Hockings Thomas | United Kingdom | Lost |
| Gunner | †Pugh Henri | United Kingdom | Lost |
The convoy SC-100
- Route
- Sydney (Cape Breton) to the United Kingdom
- Dates
- 18–25 September 1942
- Escort
- American group A3 under Commander Heineman: Campbell and Spencer with eight corvettes
- Merchant ships
- 24
- Sunk
- 5 · 26,331 tons
The dotted line follows the great circle the SC series ran, Sydney (Cape Breton) to Liverpool, 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 (18)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OG.33 | Jun 1940 | Formed at sea - Gibraltar | |
| OB.166 | 11 June 1940 | Liverpool - Formed OG.33 | |
| SL/MKS.69 | 23 March 1941 | Freetown – Liverpool | 2 sunk |
| OG.64 | 4 June 1941 | Liverpool – Gibraltar | 5 sunk |
| OB.333 | 10 June 1941 | Liverpool - Dispersed 40.20N 34.40W | |
| SL/MKS.81 | 15 July 1941 | Freetown – Liverpool | 5 sunk |
| SL/MKS.82 | 24 July 1941 | Freetown – Liverpool | |
| WN.169 | 17 August 1941 | Oban – Methil | |
| ON.27 | 16 October 1941 | Liverpool - Dispersed | 1 sunk |
| SC.61 | 21 December 1941 | Sydney CB – Liverpool | |
| WN.228 | 6 January 1942 | Oban – Methil | |
| EN.60 | 18 March 1942 | Methil – Oban | |
| ON.78 | 21 March 1942 | Liverpool – Halifax | |
| HS.3 | 21 May 1942 | Halifax – Sydney CB | |
| SC.85 | 29 May 1942 | Sydney CB – Liverpool | |
| ON.118 | 1 August 1942 | Liverpool - Dispersed | |
| BX.37 | 9 September 1942 | Boston – Halifax | |
| SC.100 | 12 September 1942 | Halifax – Liverpool | 6 sunk |
Sources
Crew list from the printed source.