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In the Second World War Pennington Court's most frequent cargo was iron ore from various countries to Britain. Occasionally she brought grain from North America instead. On 10 January 1941 Pennington Court left Liverpool for North America In February she returned carrying grain in Convoy SC 22, which left Halifax, Nova Scotia on 8 February and reached Liverpool on 28 February. In May she left Liverpool for Montreal. U-253 sighted and reported the stragglers. At 9:01 pm on 9 October U-254 fired a spread of three torpedoes, two of which hit Pennington Court. The ship remained slowly under way, so at 2145 hrs U-254 fired a fourth torpedo, but missed. At 9:50 pm U-254 fired a fifth torpedo, but it passed straight under Pennington Court. U-254's commander wanted to open fire with his 88 mm deck gun, but was prevented by a heavy sea. U-254's crew reloaded her torpedo tubes and fired a sixth torpedo at 2310 hrs, which caused Pennington Court to sink by her bow. Pennington Court sank in mid-Atlantic, southeast of Greenland and southwest of Iceland. None of her lifeboats was ever found. All 45 members of her ship's company were lost. However, the cause of the Landeremere’s death is unknown.

Commemorated on Page 262 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.