Name Gustaf E. Reuter Tonnage 6,336 tons GRT Launched 1928 | Type Oil tanker Beam 55 ft 11 in (17.04 m) Length 128 m | |
Owner Rederi AB Reut, Kungsbacka, Halland, Sweden Fate Torpedoed and sunk off Fair Isle, Scotland, 27 November 1939 Builders Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad, Gothenburg | ||
MT Gustaf E. Reuter was a 6,336 ton Swedish motor tanker belonging to the company Rederi AB Reut. She was built in 1928 by the Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad shipyard in Gothenburg.
On a voyage from Haugesund to Curaçao she was torpedoed and sunk by the U-boat U-48 at 00.30 on 27 November 1939 at the position 59°38′N 02°03′W, 14 miles west-northwest from Fair Isle, in Shetland, Scotland, and broke in two. The wreck was sunk by an escort vessel the next day. One person died while 33 survived.
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