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On 20 September 1942, at 8.15am, the Reedpool was sailing unescorted from Trinidad towards Fernandina, Florida, USA, when she was torpedoed by U-515 approximately 240 miles (386 km) south-east of Trinidad, in position 08°58'N/57°34'W. She sank after receiving a coup de grâce at 8.38am. The attack killed 5 of the crew. The captain was taken prisoner of war and interned in Germany. The 32 sailors, 4 gunners and 16 survivors of the SS Melon, torpedoed on 10 August by the Italian submarine Reginaldo Giulani (GN) and rescued by the Reedpool, were picked up on 21 September by the British schooner Millie M. Masher and landed in Georgetown, Guyana.
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Page 190 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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